Nomadics

Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.

Category: Book Review

Book Review / Criticism / Poetry

Review of Ken Irby’s Collected

Interesting review of Ken Irby’s Collected The Intent On on a blog I hadn’t known of til now. Opening gambit below; read the full piece here:   by Kenneth Irby North Atlantic Books 2009 Reviewed...

Book Launch / Book Review

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...

Art / Book Review / Painting / Poetry

Allen Fisher’s PROPOSALS

Last week the mailman  brought — to my greatest delight — the latest Spanner Editions production: Proposals 1-35 by Allen Fisher. This is a gorgeously produced full color sequence of “poem-image-commentary” ensembles. Not sure...

Book Review / Poetry

Latta & Hafner on Ken Irby

Two items of note concerning Kenneth Irby, whose book The Intent On: Collected Poems 1962-2006 I made my favorite book of the year (& most necessary one!) on this blog some time ago: A...

Book Review / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

This & That

On Jalel El Gharbi’s blog, a review by Giulio-Enrico Pisani of my most recent book of poems, Aljibar II. For those who read French. Bilingual edition available in this country from ta’wil productions. *...

Book Review / Poetry

Bill Lavender's Transfixion

Very pleased to have Transfixion, Bill Lavender’s new book just out from Garrett County & Trembling Pillow Presses, in hand. As I say in the blurb I wrote for Transfixion: “This is sharp swish...