Jean el Mouhoub Amrouche
In the valley d’Oueil, high up in the Pyrenees right now (will post a series of photos form the walks soon) with most of the time still spent proofing the Maghreb anthology. Here is...
Category: Maghrebi Literature
A Wonderful Way of Having My Holidays Spoiled!
So here I was, barely set up in my Pyrenean retreat, the lousy Euro-weather just beginning to switch to summer warmth, when, whamm! here come the 750+ page proofs for Poems for the Millennium,...
Song of the Azria on Poems & Poetics
Jerome Rothenberg posted an extract of the Maghrbi anthology yesterday. Below, his opening paragraph. You can read the whole post here. Outsider Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (41): The Song of the Azria please...
Just Published: “Exile is My Trade — A Habib Tengour Reader”
Exile Is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader Edited, translated & with a preface by Pierre Joris A comprehensive and wide ranging sampler of Habib Tengour’s poetry, fiction & essays. Published by Black Widow Press...
Rare 1956 TV Interview with Kateb Yacine on “Nedjma”
http://youtu.be/zHnpU74avvE For those who have French, a rare & special treat — what is probably the first tv interview Kateb Yacine ever gave to French television when Nedjma — the defining Maghrebi novel of the fifties —...
More Khatibi
Here, a second extract from Abdelkebir Khatibi’s autobiographical 1971 novel La Mémoire tatouée as translated by Peter Thompson. A first one can be read in an earlier Nomadics post on 20 December. Essaouira. Cold,...
Happy B-Day Tunisia!
It was a year ago today that the Arab Spring saw its first victory when Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia following the protests that had broken out on 18 December 2010 with...
Abdelkebir Khatibi’s “Tattooed Memory”
A pleasure to hear that Peter Thompson has finished translating one of the core books of Maghrebi (Moroccan, in this case) contemporary writing, Abdelkebir Khatibi’s autobiographical 1971 novel La Mémoire tatouée. Here, a brief extract...
Tengour: Ordeal by Bow
In its latest issue EOAGH published from: Ordeal by Bow, by Habib Tengour (translated by Pierre Joris … (…) We’d wall ourselves into these beer halls — the Ya -Sin Brewery, the Peepers, Chez Abu Nuwas,...
Pierre Joris’ Fall Schedule
Here’s my reading & events schedule as of now, for the next few months: Friday/Saturday Sept. 8/9 FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL CHIHUAHUA LITERATURA EN EL BRAVO 2011 Encuentro Internacional de Escritores 8 al 10 de septiembre. Ciudad...
“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