Allen Fisher's Place
Finally out! The complete one-volume edition of Allen Fisher’s first long poem Place arrived in the mail from Reality Street Editions (http://freespace.virgin.net/reality.street/). Witnessing the elaboration of Place during the seventies in London was a founding experience for my own poetics. Thirty years later the poem still stands as a core marker of the New British poetry. A psychotopography of South London as only Blake had managed to draw in another century.
I will be on the road for the next 10 days, first New York, for the PEN Awards ceremonies tonight, then Luxembourg for a week on family biz. Place being too heavy a book (418 pages)for nomadic light travel, I will take along the gorgeous new edition of Ronald Johnson’s Radi Os, just out from Flood Editions. Not sure if I will be able to blog on the road — but will try.
“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
Congratulations on the Pen award, Pierre.
-jh
Congratulations on the PEN award. I would hbave but there, but I have a cut in my foot which immobilized me in the house the last few days.
I remember Allen Fisher also from the 1970’s when I also lived in England. A section of the poem The Bridge, which I was writing at the time- a part describing the catwalks of a boat- was inspired by Allen’s work.