Nomadics

Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.

Category: Obituaries

Obituaries / Poetry

Peter Orlovsky (1933 -2010)

Anne Waldman on Peter Orlovsky’s Passing: “The Shellean farmer astride hid Pegasusian tractor” as Gregory Corso once knighted him passed on today, May 30 2010 to the elysian fields, a bardo of becoming. First...

Obituaries / Poetry

Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010)

here is the announcement, sent out by Leslie Scalapino’s family: “Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.”...

Composer / Music / Obituaries

Franz Kamin (1941-2010)

Franz Kamin was a prolific composer whose musical works explore structural principals derived from topology, prosody, General Systems Theory, and esoteric/meditational processes in unusual combinations of genre and technique: conventional instruments and children’s toys;...

Obituaries

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)

C L-S died at 100 last Friday — he would have turned 101 on 28 November. Check out the obit in the NYT, here. But don’t forget to reread Tristes Tropiques and La Pensée...

Literature / Obituaries

Raymond Federman (1928-2009)

The sad news just reached me that Ray Federman has passed. And here I was thinking that if anybody would crack that immortality thing, it would be Ray! The news came via Charles Bernstein’s...

Obituaries / Poets

Jim Carroll (gone @ 60)

Poet & diarist Jim Carroll died past Friday of a heart attack. An obit in the New York Times gives the details of the life, & a lovely piece by Tom Clark on his...

Obituaries

Abdelkebir Khatibi (1939-2009)

Moroccan novelist, poet, essayist & sociologist Abdelkebir Khatibi passed away on Monday morning in Rabat. Khatibi was a major force in contemporary Moroccan writing. There are only two of his books available in English...