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October 25, 2012

It’s Out! It’s Out!…

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,...

Book Launch / Translation

May 9, 2012

Ghérasim Luca Soirée

Do come to this & discover one of the great neglectorino poets as well as an excellent new Press! Friday, May 25, 5-7:30 p.m. MANHATTAN INN 632 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn

Arab Culture / Book Launch / Freedom of Speech / Intellectuals / Israel / Palestine / Poet / Translation

April 6, 2012

PEN Presses for Visa for Palestinian Poet

from th PEN Advocacy pages: April 4, 2012 | Larry Siems Yesterday, we got word through our Translation Committee that Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan , whose collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me is being released by Yale University Press this...

Algeria / Arab Culture / Book Launch / Essays / Intellectuals / Maghrebi Literature / Poetry / Translation

February 29, 2012

Just Published: “Exile is My Trade — A Habib Tengour Reader”

Exile Is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader Edited, translated & with a preface by Pierre Joris A comprehensive and wide ranging sampler of Habib Tengour’s poetry, fiction & essays. Published by Black Widow Press...

Art / Book Launch / Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Visual Arts

January 23, 2012

Just Published: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Selections

Happy to announce that the latest title in the Poets for the Millennium series has just been released: Ian Hamilton Finlay Selections, Edited and with an Introduction by Alec Finlay Ian Hamilton Finlay (Author),...

Book Launch / Criticism / Essays / Poetry / Uncategorized

December 29, 2011

Cartographies of the In-Between

Happy, indeed, to announce this book of essays & homages on my work, & to give thanks to all of those who contributed — & especially to Peter Cockelbergh who gathered, edited & translated...

Book Launch / Book Review / Criticism / Cultural Studies / Essays / Intellectuals / Interview / Poetics / Poetry

June 3, 2011

Charles Bernstein Interview in Brooklyn Rail…

… check it out, excellent! Charles Bernstein by Phong Bui CHARLES BERNSTEIN with Adam Fitzgerald by Charles Bernstein Charles Bernstein is the author of Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (University of Chicago...

Book Launch / Poetry readings / Uncategorized

May 23, 2011

Edmond Dune Celebration

/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ Edmond Dune, POÉSIE _/_/_/ /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Le Centre national de littérature, les Éditions PHI, les Amis d’Edmond Dune invitent __________à la présentation du 1er volume des___________ ________Oeuvres Complètes d’Edmond Dune_________ Introduction à...

Book Launch / Celebration / Paul Celan / Translation

March 2, 2011

It’s Out!

You can get it here & here. Blurbs for Meridian: Over the last half century Paul Celan has emerged as the iconic poet of the postwar/post-Holocaust period—for some of us the greatest German-language poet...

Book Launch / Book Review

December 13, 2010

Kamau Brathwaite’s Elegguas

Just out from Wesleyan University Press is ELEGGUAS by Kamau Brathwaite. Details & press release below. Here is what I wrote for the book’s quatrième de couverture: Kamau Brathwaite is the major Caribbean poet...