Author: Pierre Joris

The Joris-Peyrafitte smala is preparing to travel again in order to rejoin their summer pasturing grounds in Bourg d’Oueil, in the Pyrenees, via a few days at the Occitan culture festival in Rodez. This...

Those words from the Bhagavad Gita flashed through Robert Oppenheimer’s mind 60 years ago today, on the occasion of the first nuclear weapon’s test in New Mexico. Less than a month later, the US...

Paul Gauguin — Café at Arles Robert Kelly just sent me this, his “klagendes Lied,” for Gustaf Sobin: MEMORIAL GUSTAF SOBIN Arles no rain a shadeacross stone bleacherswaited two thousand years forour one conversation...

Today, 14 July, is Bastille Day, the day when in 1789 the good people of Paris, after breaking into the Hotel des Invalides where they gather 28000 rifles, hear (the rumor) that there’s gunpowder...

LIGHTNING You desertbe vasterlet a painful dustenvelop methe migrating dustthe birds have pushedtoward the tablet where violence residesBut now it burstsand delivers booksand dilutes itselfin all the veinsBe vasteryou whose place isthe perpetuity of...

A symposium of writers from ex-Yugoslavia met in Munich’s “Literaturhaus” last Friday & Saturday to think and talk about the Srebrenica anniversary. Today at least four German daily papers report extensively on the occasion,...

Today is the 10th anniversary of the worst case of European genocide since World War II: while the international community and U.N. peacekeepers looked on, Serb forces separated civilian Bosnian Muslim men from women...

“One never describes something that happened before the labor of writing, but really what is being produced… during this labor, in its very ‘present,’ and results not from the conflicts between the very vague...

An Israeli military sign in Arabic announcing the check-point is openfrom 7:40 to 8:00, 14:00 to 14:15, and 18:45-19:00, only 50 minutes a day Today, 9 July, is the first anniversary of the International...