Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
Palestinian relatives of two brothers and Hamas fighters, Mohammed and Zeyad Abu Anzai, mourn during their funeral in the southern Gaza Strip, 1 December 2007. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages) B’Tselem today releases its year-end report. According...
… or “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” or, my take on global Christmas lights this year: The Internet has made the world a global space – not. Above, Chris Harrison’s Internet...
Au château d’Argol, roman (1938) Un beau ténébreux, roman (1945) Liberté grande, poèmes (1946) André Breton, quelques aspects de l’écrivain, essai (1948) Le Roi pêcheur, théâtre (1948) La Littérature à l’estomac, pamphlet (1950) Le...
As soon as I had sent off my list of “10 books of 2007” to Steve Evans for his yearly roundup, I realized that there were many more books I would have loved to...
GAMMA/JDD/ÉRIC DESSONS Christian Bourgois, probably the most intelligent, eclectic, elegant and adventurous independent French publisher of the post-war period died in Paris yesterday. After working for René Julliard, he started his own publishing house,...
To watch the debate, click the blue film link below. Read more here. Ayaan Hirsi Ali versus Timothy Garton Ash Click link above to watch the debate A fiery debate on the compatibility of...
A new Maurice Blanchot book is always an event. Here is the opening paragraph (in Charlotte Mandell‘s translation) of Emilie Colombani’s review of Maurice Blanchot’s Chroniques littéraires du Journal des Débats avril 1941-août 1944,...
What is this timewhen a people no longer has a namebecause it lives without a presentIt penetrates the splinters of the explosionA past, waking from a long nightmare, pursues itIt rolls its head before...
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28th from 7-9:30pm School of the Art Institute of Chicago112 S. Michigan Avenue, in the Ballroom an off-site event coinciding withthe 2007 Modern Language Association convention FREE and ADA accessible to the...
Poet, publisher and friend John Moritz died this past Saturday. Great sadness. Here is a poem from his book by the same title: Cartography Night falls over abandoned hills, over the brown of grass,over...
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.
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“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“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”
“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
PABLO PICASSO The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems
Poasis (Selected Poems 1986-1999)
Poems for the Millennium 1 & 2
ppppp-Poems Performances Pieces Proses Plays Poetics by Kurt Schwitters
Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000-2024
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux