Adonis on the War in Lebanon
In its August issue, the French bi-weekly Courrier International prints a special section of responses to the war in Lebanon. Among them is the following piece by the poet Adonis, which he has kindly...
Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
In its August issue, the French bi-weekly Courrier International prints a special section of responses to the war in Lebanon. Among them is the following piece by the poet Adonis, which he has kindly...
A few days ago Paul Hoover forwarded the following piece by Craig Murray from the latters excellent site. Given the level of deception our governments are willing to engage in, I think it is...
Here are a few photos taken by Nicole Peyrafitte (I’m useless with any visual capture apparatus) from walking (gently, not even hiking, as my mother, 83, was with us) about our favorite spot in...
For a series of stark photographs from inside the bombed houses of Lebanon, check out the following Italian site.
Spending time in the mountains beyond net-reach, so have to wait til I get back to town to read, check what’s going on, post, etc. Hope to put up some photos from the Pyrenean...
New and unkown deadly weapons used by Israeli forces ‘direct energy’ weapons, chemical and/or biological agents, in a macabre experiment of future warfare By Professor Paola Manduca August 7, 2006 By now there are...
August 10, 2006 Destruction, Death, and Drastic Measures *The Damage in Lebanon — and Beyond* The idea that you can solve social and political problems militarilyfrom the air is, on the face of it,...
125 years ago today, i.e. on 6 August 1881, Friedrich Nietzsche had, according to his own account, the instant of insight that changed his life and thinking into an absolute “before and after this...
French poet Bernard Noel just sent the essay below, which I translated, hopefully not too overhastily, as I thought it important to publish as quickly as possible. INCURSIONS In the latest France-Culture radio news...
* * *China suppresses dissident Tibetan poet’s weblogs: The Independent reports that the Chinese government has closed down the two weblogs of dissident Tibetan poet Woeser (also known as Oser and, in Chinese, Wei...
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