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Pierre Joris, born in Strasbourg, France in 1946, was raised in Luxembourg. Since age 18, he has moved between Europe, the Maghreb & the US  & holds both Luxembourg & American citizenship. He has published over 80 books of poetry, essays, translations & anthologies — most recently Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021) & Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Posthumous prose, from CMP) & The Collected Earlier Poetry (FSG). Forthcoming are: Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge” (Small Orange Import, 2023) & Diwan of Exiles: A Pierre Joris Reader (edited with Ariel Reznikoff, 2024). For a full list see the right column on this blog.

In 2011 Litteraria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, published Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-between, edited by Peter Cockelbergh, with essays on Joris’ work by, among others, Mohammed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Jean Portante, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff & Nicole Peyrafitte (2011).

Other work includes the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar; Ta’wil Productions). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, and with Habib. Tengour Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3: The University of California Book of North African Literature.

When not on the road, he lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multimedia praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte. A volume of their collaborative work, to be called Domopoetics, will be published in the near future.

“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press

“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press

“Conversations in the Pyrenees”

“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh

“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press

“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture

“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)

“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”

“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016

“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”

“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”

“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”

“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux

“Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader” edited & translated by Pierre Joris

“Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj”

“Paul Celan: The Meridian Final Version”—Drafts—Materials

“Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between” edited by Peter Cockelbergh

“The University of California Book of North African Literature”

4×1 : Works by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey and Habib Tengour

A Nomad Poetics

Aljibar 1 & 2

PABLO PICASSO The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems

Paul Celan: Selections

Poasis (Selected Poems 1986-1999)

Poems for the Millennium 1 & 2

ppppp-Poems Performances Pieces Proses Plays Poetics by Kurt Schwitters

Routes, not Roots (CD)

The Rothenberg Variations

The Tang Extending From The Blade [Ahadada e-book]