0-Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj
1-The University of California Book of North African Literature
2-Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between edited by Peter Cockelbergh
3-Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader edited & translated by Pierre Joris
4-Paul Celan: The Meridian Final Version—Drafts—Materials
Justifying the Margins (Essays)
…is out! (Available via SPD here.) Writes her publisher: Enter vulvic space through Pyrenean caves & sacred stones, feel the wind & smell the shells of the Verrazano Narows. Bi-Valve is a tri-lingual sonic unfolding of Nicole Peyrafitte’s paintings, poems and vocals. Accompanied by jazz virtuoso Michael Bisio, Peyrafitte enters a geo-psychic knowledge that pulses [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Book Launch'
Nicole Peyrafitte’s “Bi-Valve”….
June 3rd, 2013 · No Comments · Art, Book Launch, Cooking, Performance, Poetry
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Today In NYC! Come & Hear! BURNING CITY!
March 14th, 2013 · No Comments · Book Launch, Europe, Poetry, Talk, Translation
Mar 14, 2013, 6:30pm | English Lounge (Room 4406) Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity Jed Rasula, Josh Schneiderman “The fascination of cities,” wrote Langston Hughes, “seizes me, burning like a fever in the blood.” In their new anthology Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity (2012), Jed Rasula and Tim Conley reshape the poetic landscape [...]
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Translating Shakespeare’s Sonnets
January 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Book Launch, Poetry, Translation
My copy of The Sonnets just arrived. Lovely, lovely production & a really great enterprise! The Sonnets, edited by the founding editors of the translation journal Telephone, Shamila Cohen and Paul Legault, pairs 154 poet-translators with each of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets — literally rewriting history, or at least the great Bard’s poetic oeuvre. This collection [...]
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Happy Birthday, Robert Duncan!
January 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Book Launch, Live Reading, Poetry, Uncategorized
Come & celebrate RD’s Birthday on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8 p.m. St. Mark’s Church | 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 — There will be cake in the shape of the cosmos.— With the recent releases of Duncan’s H.D. Book, the first volume of his Collected Poems & Plays and Lisa Jarnot’s excellent Robert Duncan: The Ambassador [...]
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The Maghrebi anthology …
December 23rd, 2012 · 6 Comments · Anthology, Book Launch, Maghreb, Uncategorized
…or the book Habib Tengour & I kept referring to as Diwan Iffrikyia all the years we worked on it, & that UCP calls The University of California Book of North African Literature, has now its Amazon site, which does allow you to check out the table of contents and read some (20%, they say) of the [...]
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Diwan Iffrikyia is Here!
December 1st, 2012 · 2 Comments · Arab Culture, Book Launch, Celebration, Literature, Maghreb, Maghrebi Literature, Poetics, Poetry, Prose, Translation
Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature Pierre Joris (Editor), Habib Tengour (Editor) order HERE In this fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the [...]
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It’s Out! It’s Out!…
October 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Book Launch, Poetry
Great joy as late last night I got back to Brooklyn from Albany & found the book package in the mailbox to be a volume I have been eagerly awaiting for over a decade now. Finally, here it is: Thanks are due to Peter Quartermain for an superb job as editor of the volume & for his brilliant [...]
Ghérasim Luca Soirée
May 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Book Launch, Translation
Do come to this & discover one of the great neglectorino poets as well as an excellent new Press! Friday, May 25, 5-7:30 p.m. MANHATTAN INN 632 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn
PEN Presses for Visa for Palestinian Poet
April 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Arab Culture, Book Launch, Freedom of Speech, Intellectuals, Israel, Palestine, Poet, Translation
from th PEN Advocacy pages: April 4, 2012 | Larry Siems Yesterday, we got word through our Translation Committee that Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan , whose collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me is being released by Yale University Press this month, is still waiting for a visa to travel to the U.S. for a planned two-week book tour. The tour was [...]
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Just Published: “Exile is My Trade — A Habib Tengour Reader”
February 29th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Algeria, Arab Culture, Book Launch, Essays, Intellectuals, Maghrebi Literature, Poetry, Translation
Exile Is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader Edited, translated & with a preface by Pierre Joris A comprehensive and wide ranging sampler of Habib Tengour’s poetry, fiction & essays. Published by Black Widow Press Habib Tengour, writer and sociologist, born in Mostaganem (Algeria) in 1947, lives and works between Constantine and Paris, where he teaches [...]