Kate Deimling is a poet, writer, and translator from French. She recently edited a feature in Atlanta Review on poetry from France (spring 2025), and her translation of The Story of the Marquis de Cressy, a novel by eighteenth-century author Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, is forthcoming from MLA Press later this year.
Mural by Luis Sanchez, photo by joey zanotti / Flickr.com
In his recent essay collection Rumeurs d’Amérique (2020), Congolese-born writer Alain Mabanckou surveys LA from the balcony of…