I have been missing from this year’s spring.
Witness to the winter aconite and snowdrops, the first daffodils,
but not the tulips or hyacinths.
Susanna Lang
SUSANNA LANG's translations of poetry include Words in Stone by Yves Bonnefoy (University of Massachusetts Press, 1976) and Baalbek by Nohad Salameh (L'Atelier du Grand Tétras, 2021). Her translations are published or forthcoming in Circumference, Delos, New Poetry in Translation, The Literary Review, Transference, Another Chicago Magazine, Ezra, and OOMPH! Journal. Her third full-length collection of original poems, Travel Notes from the River Styx, was published by Terrapin Books in 2017, and her chapbook, Like This, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Books in winter 2022. Among Other Stones: Conversations with Yves Bonnefoy, an e-chapbook of original poems and translations, was published by Mudlark in summer 2021. susannalang.com
Absent
Two poems from Mes forêts (My Forests) by Hélène Dorion
translated from the French by Susanna Lang
we hear the song
of fracture and desire
body like the tide going out
pale boat
lost in its night
