Roy Fisher (1930-2017)
Startled & saddened last night, returning from reading at Saint Mark’s Poetry project, to come across Jed Rasula’s FB-post: “I just heard that the great English poet Roy Fisher died today, not long after...
Category: Obituaries
Trisha Brown’s Last Paris Performance
(Although the French commentary is pleasant enough, it helps to silence it while watching the video)
For Tom Raworth (July 19, 1938 – February 8, 2017)…
… poet, traveler, publisher, performer, friend, fastest pen-in-cheeck reader in the East & the West, teacher, quiet hurricane, mover, inspirer. Travel well, my friend, you who always knew how to move with grace through the barzakhs of...
Saravah, Pierre Barouh!
Are all the good ones going to split before 2017? What is it they know about the year to come? This morning brings the news that Pierre Barouh, the French singer, composer, lyricist & founder of...
The Saga of Sisyphus: Avnery on Peres
[Uri Avnery posted this piece on Shimon Peres on September 24, 2016, thus 2 days before Peres died. I reproduce it here because I think it is a more accurate evaluation of Peres than the...
Nabile Farès (1940-2016)
Just heard from his close friend, the poet Habib Tengour, that the great Algerian writer Nabile Farès died on Wednesday. A brief bio-note (revising the Wikipedia entry) for those who don’t know Farès or his work, followed...
The Murder of Syrian Poet Mohammad Bashir al-Aani
by mlynxqualey PEN International has condemned the murder of Mohammad Bashir al-Aani and his son Elyas in Deir al-Zour City “by the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS)”: Al-Aani’s death was reported last Thursday. The...
Michel Deguy: A Feast at Eco’s
La Fête chez Eco Umberto, ton idole dans nos mémoires d’hôte faunesque renaissant mallarméen enjouant tes amis sur les pipeaux du soir nous hanta tout cet été ménippéen Mon esprit trop français monoglotte et...
Ettore Scola (1931-2016)
Filmography as director Let’s Talk About Women (1964) Thrilling (1965) Hard Time for Princes (1965) The Devil in Love (1966) Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in...
“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