0-The University of California Book of North African Literature
1-Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader edited & translated by Pierre Joris
2-Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between edited by Peter Cockelbergh
3-Paul Celan: The Meridian Final Version—Drafts—Materials
Justifying the Margins (Essays)
Came across a fascinating essay on PLACE in contemporary British writing by David Cunningham on a Ballardian website — extracted below, full essay can be read here. The piece goes to the novel, rather than to poetry, although Charles Olson, Eric Mottram & Allen Fisher are briefly paid lip-service. Which may be a shame in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'J.G. Ballard'
Ballard, Sinclair, Place & the Novel (Where's Poetry?)
October 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Criticism, Cultural Studies, Environment, Essays, Intellectuals, Literature
Tags: Allen Fisher·Eric Mottram·Iain Sinclair·J.G. Ballard·Place
Ballard, Edwards, Peyrafitte & Waldman
May 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Last full day at the University for this semester, thus little or no time for the blog today. But do go and check out Ken Edwards’ lovely & thoughtful piece on J.G. Ballard as a central figure of a “lost avant-garde” on Ken’s Reality Street blog — here. Nicole Peyrafitte also has a lovely busy [...]
Tags: Anne Waldman·J.G. Ballard·Ken Edwards·Nicole Peyrafitte·Reality Street
Sunday Reads
April 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Book Reviews, Literature, Palestine, Poetry
Some Sunday morning reads (& an added game): JG Ballard’s last short story, The Dying Fall, just published by the Guardian, here. J.G. Ballard in 2007 There’s more pictures & writing on Ballard here. * If into French, check out Pierre Assouline’s Le Monde sponsored literary blog La République des livres here. I always find a [...]
Tags: Charles Wright·Helen Vendler·J.D. Mclatchy·J.G. Ballard·New York review of Books·New York Times Book Review·Pierre Assouline·Sharon Olds·Stephen Dunn·W.S. Merwin·William Burroughs
J.G. Ballard (1930-2009)
April 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Jim bows out. The Atrocity Exhibition closes. During the sixties & seventies, he & Burroughs were the masters of inventive prose for me. On my mind this morning, clear as if it was yesterday, the trip back from his suburban house, around 1972, with Carl Weissner, after an afternoon spent sipping whisky. He had consoled me [...]
Tags: J.G. Ballard