And you become the child you never knew how to be, brazen, as the insects keep buzzing in the cavern of your ear. Something of the world is entering into you and you no longer refuse it, the purity of grieving. It bursts in, pushes you out of bed on those darkest nights when you have no idea of beauty except for the surprise of movement, of feeling your vocal chords swell, of saying I am a broken voice within the murmuring, but a voice that is trying to give life to the stones in which the fossils lie.
is a poet, literary translator, and professor emerita of French at the University of Oregon. Her poetry and translations have ap- peared in literary journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, Descant, Cider Press Review, Zoland Poetry, and Potomac Review. She is the author of two books of poetry: SkeinofLight (Airlie Press, 2014) and SketchingElise (Finishing Line, 2012). She has also published two scholarly monographs and a book-length translation of Louise Warren’s DelftBlueandObjectsoftheWorld (Guernica Editions, 2013). She is currently completing a translation of Louise Dupré’s Tout près (Éd. du Noroît, 1998).
is the author of twelve volumes of poetry, including Toutprès (1998), Plus haut que les flammes (2010), and La main hantée (2016), all from Editions du Noroît. She is the author of two novels, two plays, a collection of short stories, a memoir, and a volume of critical essays. She’s received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry twice, in 2011 for Plus haut que les flammes and in 2017 for La main hantée. Dupré’s work has been widely translated; both of her novels and her collected short stories are available in English translation. In addition, Guernica Editions published an anthology of her poetry, and her play Tout comme elle (2006) has been staged both in French and in English.
