Claude Simon (1913-2005)
“One never describes something that happened before the labor of writing, but really what is being produced… during this labor, in its very ‘present,’ and results not from the conflicts between the very vague initial project and the language, but on the contrary from a result infinitely richer than the intent… Thus, no longer prove but reveal, no longer reproduce but produce, no longer express but discover.” (from Simon’s Nobel lecture)
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“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“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”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Beautiful. I am at present writing an exegesis to go with a novel I have just written, and this quote is right on the money. Thank you for introducing me to him. I will look further.