“Exile is there, exile is plain/ everywhere…” TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: “I discovered Marie-Claire Bancquart in an anthology of 20th-century French poets during my first literary translation workshop in graduate school. I was immediately drawn to her language and her imagery—the way she brought ordinary things into her poems and elevated them to the same status as…Read more Marie-Claire Bancquart & Wendeline Hardenberg: Terre/ Earth, from “With Death, an Orange Segment Between Our Teeth, poems”.