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Arctic Ice / Global Warming / Uncategorized
by Pierre Joris · Published March 13, 2012 · Last modified March 10, 2012
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 03/09/2012 Greenland ice sheet may melt completely with 1.6 degrees global warming The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global...
Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Man-made Disaster / Permafrost / Unnatural Disaster
by Pierre Joris · Published February 8, 2012 · Last modified February 7, 2012
Joint press release by the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 02/07/2012 Quantifying climate impacts: new comprehensive model comparison launched Climate change has impacts on...
Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas
by Pierre Joris · Published December 5, 2011
This is today as the latest Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Climate dents in humankind´s family tree: new correlations discovered Climate changes in Earth’s history have influenced...
Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 11/22/2011 Growing world trade makes food production cheaper – at the expense of the environment Further opening of the markets for agricultural products...
Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 09/01/2011 Study on the Little Ice Age: Low solar activity just marginally cools the climate The weakening sun was not the determinant...
Air pollution / Arctic Ice / Climate Change / Global Warming
by Pierre Joris · Published July 27, 2011
… Long Buried Pollution as Arctic Ice Melts Trapped toxic chemicals are escaping from melting snow and ice in the Arctic, according to new research Check out the following article from the Scientific American...
Climate Change / Deserts / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming
by Pierre Joris · Published May 31, 2011
I enjoy the Potsdam Institute’s reports, though at times, like today, they seem too much in bed, or at least embedded in industry — but then of course energy is the biggest industry around...
Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas
by Pierre Joris · Published February 21, 2011
Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): 21/02/2011 EU climate target: Less CO2-emissions could trigger more economic growth. Increasing the EU’s 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target from 20% to 30%...
Press release from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): 12/09/2010 Talk at Cancun is of 2 degrees Celsius – even 1.5 degrees would have effects lasting centuries Even global warming of just...
Climate Change / Global Warming
by Pierre Joris · Published November 17, 2010 · Last modified November 16, 2010
Here, the latest Press Release from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). 11/16/2010 Global Warming could cool down temperatures in winter The overall warming of the earth’s northern half could result in...
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.
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“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“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”
“Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader” edited & translated by Pierre Joris
“Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj”
“Paul Celan: The Meridian Final Version”—Drafts—Materials
“Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between” edited by Peter Cockelbergh
“The University of California Book of North African Literature”
4×1 : Works by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey and Habib Tengour
PABLO PICASSO The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems
Poasis (Selected Poems 1986-1999)
Poems for the Millennium 1 & 2
ppppp-Poems Performances Pieces Proses Plays Poetics by Kurt Schwitters
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux