More Revisionism: No Orientalism?
I guess it had to be expected: a few years after Edward Said’s death, the attacks on the historical concept that made him a target even in his life-time, namely Orientalism, which the ever...
Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
I guess it had to be expected: a few years after Edward Said’s death, the attacks on the historical concept that made him a target even in his life-time, namely Orientalism, which the ever...
Are we in for revisionist historical assessments when it comes to Arab cultures? It may be too early to say, though if the article by medieval historian Francisco Garcia Fitz, published in German translation...
…would be eighty today. Om. The pix above comes from emptymirrorbooks webpage, and if you click on the photo on that site you’ll get info on John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, the photographer.
… would be 100 today! Here are a few of her lines, from her “official website:” “Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen...
Poet Oscar Pastior was honored last month with Germany’s major literary award, the Büchner prize. Better late than never, you could say, though some would interpret such a belated, long overdue event as close...
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, poet, essayist and anthologist, has just published a booklength essay on radical Islam, Schreckens Männer, (Suhrkamp Verlag). I have not yet read the book, only just perused a longish interview with...
So now they took the prize away from Handke. The city councellors of Düsseldorf decided to save their cultural-political butts & play it pc. Here a few links to the current installment of the...
Back from Toronto (never got into TO itself, the only free day turning out to be the day of the TTC’s wild-cat strike) but remained stuck on York campus. Much excellent time spent with...
At York University. Early breakfast seance listening to Nicole Brossardtalk of “la ville” the city in her life and writing, as a major producerof euphoria, saying “l’air de la ville rend libre parce que...
*** The other major event while I was in Europe last week happened in the Netherlands. Somali born, Dutch naturalized, parlamentarian, activist and author Ayaan Hirzi Ali decided to call it quits and move...
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