"fifty friends in Lebanon"
Judith Malina & Hanon Reznikov of the Living Theater have just sent out the following text concerning the war in Lebanon: We have fifty friends in Lebanon.Fifty friends under bombardment.We worked together a long...
Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
Judith Malina & Hanon Reznikov of the Living Theater have just sent out the following text concerning the war in Lebanon: We have fifty friends in Lebanon.Fifty friends under bombardment.We worked together a long...
The American poet and publisher James L. Weil died July 7. Born in New York in 1929, he studied at the University of Chicago and Oxford before becoming a businessman, retiring as senior vice-president...
Among the thirty some books bought on my first visit this summer to Toulouse’s great bookstore, Ombres Blanches, I picked Raoul Vaneigem’s Journal Imaginaire (Le Cherche-midi Editeur, 2006) to start off with (maybe because...
** Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches **** Visit the Dahr Jamail Iraq website http://dahrjamailiraq.com **** Website by http://jeffpflueger.com ** “If You Haven’t Left, You’re Hezbollah” *Inter Press Service*Dahr Jamail *SIDON, Lebanon, Jul 30 (IPS) –...
Took a day off from the war — no tv, no radio, no newspaper (only the back — cultural — pages of Libération, & no need to open the Times as the Mets did...
Seems like the blogger.com site was down yesterday most of the time — at least from my European time perspective — & I was unable to post — in fact lost a post I...
*** As friend Ammiel Alcalay pointed out in an email, I was somewhat overhasty when posting addresses to interesting, meaning radical, information sites on Mid East politics, and included MEMRI, which as Ammiel points...
A blog symposium / radial carnival dedicated to the work of Douglas Oliver has begun at “Intercapillary Space“, with a post each day. Personal responses, detailed commentaries, essays, diaries… For the first week the...
Israeli schoolgirls writing messages on artillery shells destined to bomb Lebanon. Sources to follow the attacks on Lebanon & Palestine : via signandsight: A survey of the German feuilletons and the European press General...
For those in the South of France this week, don’t miss the Occitan Arts festival in the city of Rodez (the same city where Antonin Artaud was interned for some time) — the complete...
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