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

Tagged: Claude Pélieu

Poetry / Prose / Summer Reading / Translation

August 28, 2010

Kali Claude Yug Pélieu Express 4

Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…) A NEON ROSE-WINDOW DIES ON THE HORIZON Your brain has been eroded by realities, you took your time, and it was all pretty...

Poetry / Prose / Summer Reading / Uncategorized

August 25, 2010

Kali Claude Yug Pélieu Express 3

Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…) HOT LEAD IN THE HEDGE OF STARS Horizons, arrows, flexible clouds, silent gestures describing the generation that was sitting on the electrified fence,...

Poetry / Prose / Summer Reading / Translation

August 24, 2010

Kali Claude Yug Pélieu Express 2

Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…) And the others? Where are they? They’re stomping somewhere. Ten years, fifteen years already… everything happens… filmed echoes, morphine, hot bath, I’m raining,...

Poetry / Prose / Translation

August 23, 2010

Kali Yug Express: a promised Beach Novel

Looks like we may be running out of summer. Now I may not get to the beach to relax in sand (a pain anyway, gets into books & notebooks, yikes!), but I remember as...

Obituaries / Performance / Poetry / Reading / Uncategorized

July 20, 2010

Homage & Good-Bye to Tuli Kupferberg

On Saturday a Tuli Kupferberg homage was held at Saint Marks in the Bowery’s Poetry Project. The Fugs performed a number of Tuli’s songs, and some 40 plus people spoke or read to honor...

September 16, 2009

Claude Pélieu & Mary Beach — Studio Visit

Claude Pelieu and Mary Beach: Studio/Gallery/Reality, Video by Laki Vazakas

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.