Ali Farka Touré (1939-2006)
The great Malian musician Ali Farka Touré has called it quits. No more talking in Timbouktou. The NYT obit is here. And listen to Niafunke and Radio Mali. Africa is indeed blue this morning.
Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
The great Malian musician Ali Farka Touré has called it quits. No more talking in Timbouktou. The NYT obit is here. And listen to Niafunke and Radio Mali. Africa is indeed blue this morning.
From: Meditations on the Forty Stations of Al-Hallaj 8. Avidity (sharah) with Anouar Brahem on Oud (extract from “Qaf,” on the cd Barzakh)
I didn’t know anything about the British anthropologist Chris Knight, until I came across an interview with him on ReadySteadyBook, Mark Thwaite’s excellent blog. I haven’t yet gotten to Knight’s book, Blood Relations: Menstruation...
Spending the weekend in NY, family biz, plus some intensive ashtanga sessions with Manju Jois, plus some fun & friends. So, first stop coming into the city yesterday was the A.I.R. gallery for a...
I cannot resist reprinting the following piece by Robert Fisk, which appeared in The Independent a week or so ago. Fisk is certainly at this point the most intelligent reporter on Iraq & allied...
Alison Croggon, poet, playwright, novelist, blogger and editor from Down Below just alerted some of us to what looks like a rather nasty — but yawningly predictable — bit of censorship happening on (or...
An exegesis of Burroughs’ novel The Soft Machine, a calligraphic painting of his used for the novel’s dust jacket, and a photograph of his typewriter. The William S. Burroughs Archive, The Henry W. and...
From: Meditations on the 40 Stations of Al-Hallaj 7. exaltation (tarab)
A year and a half after his death, a new book by Jacques Derrida has been published which reviewer Didier Eribon calls “fulminating” in his review for the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. “L’Animal...
Elisabeth Borchers is eighty today. She came to fame with her first publication, a poem called “eia wasser regnet schlaf” in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1960, because the poem started a scandal that...
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