Archipelago Books' Third Biennial Fundraising Auction

by Pierre Joris · December 2, 2008

Please join Archipelago Books for its third biennial fundraising auction!
Where: The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, 972 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (between 78th and 79th)

When:
Thursday, December 4th, 6:30 – 8:30

Why: To support Archipelago Books, a not-for-profit press, in its mission to publish outstanding and overlooked works of international literature.

What: Silent and live auction, with refreshments.

A short list of available items: Two limited edition etchings by Breyten Breytenbach (22”x15”); original photography by Rachel Harrison; signed first editions by Don DeLillo, Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Louis de Bernières, John Richardson, Russell Banks, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Louis Begley, and Elias Khoury, among others; limited edition broadsides by John Ashbery, Czesław Miłosz, Michael Palmer, Robert Haas, and Paul Bowles;
The James John Audubon Portfolio Collection,
lunch and a day with Eric Banks at the Aqueduct Race Track;
gift certificates to more than 10 NYC bookstores; gift certificates to a variety of restaurants, bed & breakfasts, spas, and gyms; theater and concert tickets, cases of wine, magazine subscriptions, vintage posters, and much more!

Check out details & a full list of auction items here!

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whoissecretdubai says:

December 3, 2008 at 5:02 am

Hello,

A humble request…

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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.