Category: French

• Twelve Poems by Sabine Huynh

  eyelashes against eyelashes intersection of skies in my own forest of your eyes water fern which blush on

  French

  Charlotte Mandell, Sabine Huynh

• Two Poems by Jean-Christophe Bailly

  Cartesio, that’s his name in Italian, I think it suits him, anyway our paths crossed again one evening: sipping a drink on a café terrace, an unremarkable street corner

  French

  Jean-Christophe Bailly, Samuel Martin

• Four Poems by Céline Arnauld

  The chirping of tears ceases in the cup brimming with winter orgy Soul—heart—mind In search of the last rose

  French

  Céline Arnauld, Henry Cole Smith

• Five Poems by Marie-Noëlle Agniau

  Your baying convokes a whole series of specters. Illegible figures. (they fall silent arranging the screams)

  French

  Jesse Amar, Marie-Noëlle Agniau

• Olivia Elias

  Why should I have to pay/ the price of sacrifice? asks/ the child of the people of peasants/ fedayeen & merchants

  French

  Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Olivia Elias

• Meret Oppenheim

  I adore my girlfriend’s dog./ He has such a lovely way of/ saying ‘yes.’

  French, German

  Kathleen Heil, Meret Oppenheim

• Ennio Moltedo

  Why should I have to pay/ the price of sacrifice? asks/ the child of the people of peasants/ fedayeen & merchants

  French

  Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Olivia Elias

• Mostafa Nissabouri

  I nomad / I heal through sand writings / the wounds of becoming in waiting

  French

  Mostafa Nissabouri, Pierre Joris

• Robert Desnos

  The anemone who reigned over the sea / Still reigns this is understood / But so little she is lost

  French

  Jules Lefèvre, Robert Desnos

• Perrin Langda

  diplodocus graze / the roots of the late bao- / babs twenty thousand leagues under

  French

  Pauline Levy Valensi, Perrin Langda