Cole Swensen is an American translator, poet, editor, and a professor at Brown University, Rhode Island. A finalist for the National Book Award in 2004 and the recipient of a PEN USA Award for her translation of Jean Frémon’s The Island of the Dead, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.

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Excerpts from NOW, NOW, LOUISON

By JEAN FRéMON

Creating ambushes, hunting traps, to catch a little bit of love, that’s how you spend your time.