Born on May 2, 1952, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of France, Louise L. Lambrichs long pursued a dual career as a novelist and essayist. Interested in the history of medical thought and epistemology, and in the relationship between medicine and psychoanalysis, she also grappled with the history of the war in the former Yugoslavia and ultimately highlighted the mechanism of genocidal repetition in this southern European region. Following this encounter with a traumatic reality, she returned to writing novels but also, encouraged by Jeanine Baude, turned to poetic exploration. *Sur le fil, envolées* (On the Edge, Flights) is her fourth collection, in dialogue with the drawings of Granjabiel, which have accompanied her work for some twenty years.