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)
Come & celebrate RD’s Birthday on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8 p.m. St. Mark’s Church | 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 — There will be cake in the shape of the cosmos.— With the recent releases of Duncan’s H.D. Book, the first volume of his Collected Poems & Plays and Lisa Jarnot’s excellent Robert Duncan: The Ambassador [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Robert Duncan'
Happy Birthday, Robert Duncan!
January 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Book Launch, Live Reading, Poetry, Uncategorized
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It’s Out! It’s Out!…
October 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Book Launch, Poetry
Great joy as late last night I got back to Brooklyn from Albany & found the book package in the mailbox to be a volume I have been eagerly awaiting for over a decade now. Finally, here it is: Thanks are due to Peter Quartermain for an superb job as editor of the volume & for his brilliant [...]
The Price of Poetry
May 24th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Books
Waking up early at the Luxembourg Embassy in D.C. (more on that maybe in the next post) I walk out onto Mass Ave to find a breakfast spot, hang a right after Gandhi’s statue & come to an excellent Belgian Bon Pain joint — organic everything, so soft boiled egg, various breads, etc. Across the street I espy a [...]
Robert Duncan to Kenneth Irby, May 10, 1963
May 3rd, 2012 · 2 Comments · Correspondence, Poet, Poetics
Last year as he & his work were being celebrated at the University of Lawrence, Kansas [see post here] Ken Irby gave me a copy of & permission to reprint the following letter by Robert Duncan — the first one Irby received from RD. It took awhile, but here it is finally, as photo repro & [...]
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Clément Oudard: from H.D. to Robert Duncan
November 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Book Review, Criticism, Poetics, Poetry, Uncategorized
After many years, the French are finally adressing Duncan’s work! There had been one smallish “Selected” published by Christian Bourgois in the 80s — a very silly & misleading selection that couldn’t & didn’t work. In fact, when a couple years later Bourgois decided to quit publishing any poetry —American or other — he would [...]
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