Susanna Lang
Susanna Lang’s translations of poetry include Words in Stone by Yves Bonnefoy (University of Massachusetts Press, 1976), Baalbek by Nohad Salameh (L’Atelier du Grand Tétras, 2021), and Unfasten the silk of your silence by Souad Labbize (Éditions des Lisières, 2025). My Forests by Hélène Dorion, in Lang’s translation, is forthcoming from Book*Hug Press. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Asymptote, Tupelo Quarterly, AGNI, The Common, and Mayday, among other journals. Winner of the Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize awarded by December, her fourth full-length collection of poems, This Spangled Dark, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. More at susannalang.com. (updated 10/2025)
AGNI has published the following translation:
from They pass through, and see through us
Poetry by Christine Guinard • Translated from the French by Susanna Lang