0-The University of California Book of North African Literature
1-Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader edited & translated by Pierre Joris
2-Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between edited by Peter Cockelbergh
3-Paul Celan: The Meridian Final Version—Drafts—Materials
Justifying the Margins (Essays)
Beatriz Leal Riesco reviews Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature Edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour (University of California Press, 2013) To bring together for the first time for the English-speaking public a broad range of texts from North Africa, ranging from ancient myths from the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Criticism'
Asymptote Review of Millennium Vol IV
April 23rd, 2013 · 1 Comment · Criticism, Cultural Studies, Literary Magazines & Reviews, Maghreb, Poetry
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Bill Sherman On Ed Dorn’s Collected
April 14th, 2013 · No Comments · Criticism, Poetics, Poetry
Been on the road for readings for nearly a week, thus no posts. Old friend Bill Sherman had sent me a review of the two Dorn reviews plus his own takes on the Dorn, which he graciously gave me permission to repost here on Nomadics — which I’ll do, as I catch my breath & [...]
Tags: Bill Sherman·Edward Dorn
Iain Sinclair on Ed Dorn
April 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Book Review, Criticism, Cultural Studies, Poetry, Poets, Uncategorized
There’s an excellent review (& more) of Ed Dorn’s Collected Poems by Iain Sinclair in the current issue of the London Review of Book. Below the opening paragraph. Unhappily you need to be a subscriber (& that’s a worthwhile thing to be, see below) to have full access (or pick up a paper copy in [...]
Peter Riley on Ed Dorn’s Collected 2.
March 27th, 2013 · No Comments · Criticism, Poetry
The second part of Peter Riley’s reveiw of Ed Dorn’s Collected just cam eout in the Fortnightly Review. Below, the opening paras, for the whole piece, click here. The relentless fury of Ed Dorn 2. A Fortnightly Review of Collected Poems Edward Dorn Edited with a preface by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn Carcanet Press 2012 | [...]
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Eric Mottram on Triggernometry
December 26th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Criticism, Cultural Studies, Essays
That lethal all-American gun pathology has obviously been on my mind these last weeks. Two expressions from long ago kept coming back: “triggernometry” and “persuasive lips” — eventually they brought me back to Eric Mottram’s 1976 essay, “The Persuasive Lips” which opened his excellent 1989 collection of cultural criticism essays called Blood on the Nash Ambassador [...]
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Jean Bollack (1923-2012)
December 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Criticism, Cultural Studies, Essays, Homage, Intellectuals, Language, Literature, Obituaries, Paul Celan, Translation
When I think of Jean Bollack — philologist, philosopher, hermeneut, translator, commentator, friend to Paul Celan & irritant to many — the first word that comes to mind is “décrasser,” a French term that means to clean, to scrub or more powerfully, to scour, even dip into a bath of acid to remove the accumulated gangue of lazy [...]
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Gauss Seminars on Paul Celan’s Meridian
November 8th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Criticism, Paul Celan, Poetics, Poetry, Translation
American Hybrid on Reality Street
October 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Anthology, Criticism, Poetry
A week or so ago I posted a link to Peter Riley’s review of the American Hybrid anthology [here] in the Fortnightly Review; poet & publisher Ken Edwards has just published a piece on this review & anthology on his Reality Street site, which begins as follows: Is it all over? Posted by Ken Edwards on Friday, October [...]
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Peter Riley Reviews American Hybrid
September 20th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Anthology, Criticism, Poetry
Fascinating review of Cole Swensen and David St. John’s American Hybrid anthology by Peter Riley in the British Fortnightly Review; first paras below: IT CAN BE very difficult dealing as a reviewer with a body of poetry with which you feel you have been involved. This anthology collects poets mostly active from the 1990s to the present, [...]
Tags: Cole Swensen·David St. John·Fortnightly Review·Peter Riley
Rain Taxi Review of “Cartographies”
August 7th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Book Review, Criticism, Cultural Studies, Poetry, Prose, Translation
A review of Pierre Joris-Cartographies of the In-between by Megan Burns was just published by Rain Taxi.Opening para below: PIERRE JORIS Cartographies of the In-Between edited by Peter Cockelbergh Litteraria Pragensia (€12) by Megan Burns “There is no difference between inside and outside at the poem’s warp speed.” —Pierre Joris, Notes Toward a Nomadic Poetics Cartographies [...]
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