Nomadics

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

Monthly Archive: June 2012

Criticism / Homage / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

Homage to Paul Celan

Edited by Ilya Kaminsky and G.C.Waldrep “If there is a country named Celania—as Julia Kristeva once proposed—its holy texts are filled with doubt, and they overcome this doubt almost successfully, with words of wrenching, uncompromised...

Autobiography

Happy B-Day, Jean-Jacques

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born today 300 years ago. May be the occasion to spend a few hours reading into what is one of the greatest, if not the greatest (sorry, Augustine…) autobiographies, his Confessions. And...

Poetics / Poetry

Clayton Eshleman’s Anatomy of the Night

I have been reading — & rereading — Clayton Eshleman’s An Anatomy of Night (published — details here — by Blaze Vox [Books] in 2011) with great, & indeed, increasing pleasure over some weeks now. It...

Essays / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

On Celan’s Meridian

My conversation from earlier this year with Leonard Schwartz on translating Paul Celan’s Meridian first heard on his  Cross Cultural Poetics radio program is now available via PennSound here as Episode #253: “Celan/Bronk,” 2012: Joris discusses his translation...

Interview

5 Questions with_________

Off for a week’s teaching at Naropa, so there will be few posts until I return, meanwhile check out this little interview I gave Maryam Monalisa Gharavi for The New Inquiry: Five Questions with Pierre...

Book Reviews / Books / Poetry

Peter Riley on Oystercatchers

Lovely review by Peter Riley of an excellent English poetry press in the Fortnightly Review. Opening paras below, read the whole thing here: Peter Hughes and Oystercatcher Press. By Peter Riley. Peter Hughes. THE...

Poetics / Poetry

The Elements of Poetry

Lovely lazy Sunday morning, warm, slightly humid & possibly the first one of the summer will need the hum of the a.c. Meanwhile thinking about poetry & poetics — & by chance (though that’s the wrong...