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

Category: Criticism

Book Review / Criticism / Poetics / Poetry / Uncategorized

November 28, 2011

Clément Oudard: from H.D. to Robert Duncan

After many years, the French are finally adressing Duncan’s work! There had been one smallish “Selected” published by Christian Bourgois in the 80s — a very silly & misleading selection that couldn’t & didn’t...

Criticism / Poetry / Poetry readings / Radio

October 15, 2011

Jackson Mac Low Writing Through Ezra

Writing through Ezra (PoemTalk #46) Jackson Mac Low, “Words nd Ends from Ez” POEMTALK Jackson Mac Low, Ezra Pound LISTEN TO THE SHOW Writes Al Filreis, PoemTalk’s producer & host: PoemTalk travelled to Bard College,...

Book Launch / Book Review / Criticism / Cultural Studies / Essays / Intellectuals / Interview / Poetics / Poetry

June 3, 2011

Charles Bernstein Interview in Brooklyn Rail…

… check it out, excellent! Charles Bernstein by Phong Bui CHARLES BERNSTEIN with Adam Fitzgerald by Charles Bernstein Charles Bernstein is the author of Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (University of Chicago...

Book Launch / Criticism / Essays / Literature / Poetics / Uncategorized

April 26, 2011

Cartographies of the In-Between

This announcement in from Literatura Pragensia some time ago: PIERRE JORIS CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE IN-BETWEEN ed. Peter Cockelbergh ISBN TBA (paperback) 300pp Publication date: December 2011 Price: € 12.00 (not including postage) Pierre...

Book Review / Criticism / Poetry

April 16, 2011

Review of Ken Irby’s Collected

Interesting review of Ken Irby’s Collected The Intent On on a blog I hadn’t known of til now. Opening gambit below; read the full piece here: by Kenneth Irby North Atlantic Books 2009 Reviewed...

Criticism / Poetics / Poetry

April 7, 2011

Michael Boughn on Aram Saroyan’s Dismissal of Creeley & Dorn

Below the opening paragraphs of Michael Boughn’s Galatea Resurrects post. You can read the full piece here. MICHAEL BOUGHN Engages “The Hero and the Gunslinger: Did Robert Creeley and Ed Dorn lose their way in middle...

Criticism / Jazz

March 30, 2011

Steve Dalachinsky on Matthew Shipp

What Is This Thing Called Shipp? Matthew Shipp – Art of the Improviser Thirsty Ear 57197 – 2cds Matthew solo live in Paris January 28, 2011 Matthew Shipp Trio live at (Le) Poisson Rouge...

Algeria / Criticism / Essays / Intellectuals / Poetry / Prose

March 8, 2011

Call for Papers: Habib Tengour Issue

Expressions maghrébines Revue de la Coordination internationale des chercheurs sur les littératures du Maghreb www.limag.com/em.htm Appel à articles Les écritures nomades de Habib Tengour vol. 11, no 1, été 2012 Dossier coordonné par...

Book Review / Criticism / Essays / Poetry / Translation

November 30, 2010

Cockelbergh’s “Marginalalia”

Peter Cockelbergh has just written what amounts to the first solid review of my book of essays, Justifying the Margins. For the occasion he has done way more: he has put together a feature...

Criticism / Essays / Literature / Paul Celan / Poetics / Poetry

September 13, 2010

The Meridian—Paul Celan

While spending much of the weekend correcting the page proofs of my translation of Paul Celan—The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materials forthcoming in the eponymous collection directed by Werner Hamacher at Stanford University Press, I noticed...

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.