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)
Extracted from a larger piece on Silliman’s blog on a number of new & recent anthologies (check out the whole post here): (…) Another anthology available from UC Press that is a “must own” item is Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature, co-edited by Pierre Joris &Habib Tengour. It’s not a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Anthology'
Ron Silliman on Millennium 4
March 12th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Amazigh Poetry, Anthology, Arab Culture, Berber Literature, Book Review, Maghrebi Literature, Poetry, Translation
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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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, [...]
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A Wonderful Way of Having My Holidays Spoiled!
July 25th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Anthology, Maghrebi Literature, Poems for the Millennium, Translation
So here I was, barely set up in my Pyrenean retreat, the lousy Euro-weather just beginning to switch to summer warmth, when, whamm! here come the 750+ page proofs for Poems for the Millennium, Volume 4: The University of California Book of North African Literature. They’ll keep me busy until I return to NYC (I’ll holiday [...]
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Jonas Mekas on Penguin Anthology
May 15th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Anthology, Poetry Cuisine, Poets
A letter from Kimberley Lyons: Dear friends, Please click on the link and choose video diary link in the text to watch Jonas Mekas, with help of Vyt Bakaitis, herald the excluded works from a new anthology from Penguin.
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Review of 4X1
March 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Anthology, Poetry, Translation
An interesting review of 4X1 on Through the Skylight blog: The Future of Antithologies and the Joris Example Posted on March 6, 2012 by Daniel With poetry anthologies always determined by geography, genre, genus, gender, or group dynamics, it’s a joy to come across one that presents an odd assemblage of writers and unseen connections. In 4 X 1 Pierre Joris, a Luxembourgian [...]
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Missing from Dove Anthology
December 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Anthology, Poet, Uncategorized
Clayton Eshleman sent the following list of important 20th century American poets missing from the recent Rita Dove edited Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry. As I know very well for having committed a few anthologies myself, exclusions are not only inevitable but also necessary: it is often who the editor leaves out that says more [...]
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Two Poems by Djibril Sall
July 11th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Anthology, Poetry, Translation
Finally have internet in the mountains of the Pyrenees (the village of Bourg d’Oueil, to be precise) & can try to get back to some normalcy of blogging. Working right now — as I’ve been doing for some two years now! — on the Maghrib anthology. Here are two poems by the Mauritanian poet Djibril [...]
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from the “Diwan Ifrikiya” anthology: Salah Garmadi
May 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Anthology, Maghrebi Literature, Translation
Salah Garmadi (1933 – 1982) OUR ANCESTORS THE BEDUINS they are here no one can deny them no slogan can efface them they are the inherited majority depth coiled in maghrebian palms leaves untamable root the Moroccans still keep watch over the Tunisian street the Tunisians still fry doughnuts for the children of Bejaïa in Constantine [...]
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