Adieu Paris — Phinal Photos
& here the last snapshots from the Marché de la Poésie:
Castor Astral publisher & recent Janis Joplin French bio-book author Jean-Yves Reuzeau
Eric Sarner — poet, docu-film maker, translator (most recently my ALJIBAR) — with his grandson
Jean-Pierre Faye: poet, editor (CHANGE magazine, one of the essential 70ies French magazines) & philosopher (his Langages Totalitaires, one of the great linguistic & cultural analyses of the rise of fascistic language in Germany, is still in dire need of an English translation — as is most of his poetry). Here at a book-signing table.
Abdelwahab Meddeb, the Tunisian poet & essayist, as we sit on the terrace of the Café de la Mairie, discussing the sad fact that his superb book-length essay The Malady of Islam (translated by Charlotte Mandell Kelly & myself) never got any attention in the US while it was a major success almost everywhere else in the world.
& finally, Cole Swensen, in animated discussion — which was the mode we were all in for the three days of the 2007 mouture of the Marché de la poésie…
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“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“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
Well considering the tumult that is engulfing Islam I understand why M. Meddeb may not have a huge reception in the USA. If the Frensh like him c’est la vie.
And it is exactly that kind of response that is the problem with cocksure gringos. If you want to give an informed comment, please read the book first.
What makes you think that I have not read the book sir? As to your aspersion,I reject it categorically! I am Eurasian.