Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
Below, PEN American Center’s obituary notice for Michael Heim, one of his generations greatest translators.: PEN Mourns Loss of DistinguishedTranslator and Philanthropist Michael Henry Heim PEN American Center announced today that the recently deceased Michael Henry...
Maghrebi Literature / Poems for the Millennium / Poetry / Translator
by Pierre Joris · Published July 30, 2012
In the valley d’Oueil, high up in the Pyrenees right now (will post a series of photos form the walks soon) with most of the time still spent proofing the Maghreb anthology. Here is...
Interesting piece on how to become a translator on Arabic Literature (in English) blog today. Obviously I don’t agree with all of what is being said & proposed, but much if not most is...
Via Harriet: Pierre Joris Chooses Jen Hofer for 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award BY HARRIET STAFF Jen Hofer has won the 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, chosen by Pierre Joris, for translating Negro Marfil/Ivory...
Thursday, April 19, 7:00pm Seeing About: Sébastien Smirou with Andrew Zawacki and Pierre Joris French poet Sébastien Smirou is joined by his English-language translator and fellow poet Andrew Zawacki for a reading from —...
Criticism / Intellectuals / Poet / Poetics / Translator
by Pierre Joris · Published April 5, 2012 · Last modified April 6, 2012
A collection of essays and interviews on a “nomad poet” Posted: April 4, 2012 (original here) By Stephan Delbos – Staff Writer | Comments (0) | Post comment Walter Novak For many readers and writers, poetry seems...
Celebration / Literature / Poetry / Translation / Translator
by Pierre Joris · Published April 3, 2012
Conflicts in Translation: A Tribute to Serge Gavronsky with Serge Gavronsky, Mary Ann Caws, Lydia Davis, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Richard Sieburth FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012 2-6 PM JAMES ROOM, FOURTH FLOOR, BARNARD HALL...
Literature / Obituaries / Translator
by Pierre Joris · Published January 25, 2012 · Last modified January 26, 2012
We hadn’t met in a number of years, though we would talk on the phone once or twice yearly, me calling from wherever I was, Carl always from Mannheim. I had hopes that this...
Most happy to learn that I was given a Translation Fellowship by the NEA this year! Below the official announcement: NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Announces $200,000 for 16 Literature Translation Fellowships Since the...
Europe / Literature / Translator / Uncategorized
by Pierre Joris · Published July 13, 2011 · Last modified July 12, 2011
Via the excellent signandsight site, the opening paras of a recent essay by Norbert Mappes-Niediek. Fascinating lit news from that other, often forgotten or belittled area of Europe: 03/07/2011 The paradoxes of the Ex-Yugoslavian...
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.
More
“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
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“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