Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
Today: one book & one book only: “The Collected Essays” of James Baldwin, who was born on this day 100 years ago. I opened the book at random to the following sentence, underlined in...
… can be minimised if warming is swiftly reversed Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 08/01/2024 Current climate policies imply a high risk for tipping of critical Earth system...
This PIK press release arrives at the very moment I hear a commentator on France Culture’s noon news broadcast explain that the quantity of food waste on our planet is, or rather would, be...
Intellectuals / Palestine / Poetry readings / Translation
by Pierre Joris · Published February 20, 2024
On Sunday 2.18.24 “A Poetry Reading in Response to Antisemitism” was held at The Museum of Jewish Heritage here in New York. Cultural critic and keynote speaker Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: How They Rise, Why...
…but yes, the result is a pivotal land-mark. The UN climate summit COP28 in Dubai closed. On this issue, PIK Directors Ottmar Edenhofer and Johan Rockström: Johan Rockström, Earth system scientist and Co-Director of...
Image by Poul Christoffersen Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 10/18/2023 The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more resistant to global warming than previously thought, finds a...
Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan In memory of the great poet & writer Ingeborg Bachman who died 50 years ago today, here is an extract from the final act of my play The Agony...
…endanger the South American monsoon Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 10/05/2023 The impacts of global warming, deforestation and intensified land use are pushing the South American monsoon towards...
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 09/14/2023 For the first time, an international team of scientists is able to provide a detailed outline of planetary resilience by mapping out...
Dear Friends, I would like to share with you the following news: Yesterday a special protest event was held in Tel Aviv – the death procession in which thousands of Arab and Jews participated...
We just received the following letter & videos from our friend Vered Lev Keenan, & feel that this information needs to be made more public in this country: Dear Friends, For Twenty Nine weeks...
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
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux