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

Category: Obituaries

February 7, 2012

Antoni Tapies (1923-2012)

Antoni Tapies in front of one of his works.

February 3, 2012

Stacy Doris (1962-2012)

Great, great sadness. Listen to Stacy read from her work, here. Check our tributes here.

February 1, 2012

Wisława Szymborska, 1923-2012

BY HARRIET STAFF

February 1, 2012

Dorothea Tanning, 1910-2012

BY HARRIET STAFF

Literature / Obituaries / Translator

January 25, 2012

Carl Weissner (1940-2012)

We hadn’t met in a number of years, though we would talk on the phone once or twice yearly, me calling from wherever I was, Carl always from Mannheim. I had hopes that this...

Jazz / Obituaries

January 21, 2012

Etta James (1938-2012)

December 18, 2011

Sylvia Mae Gorelick’s Homage to George Whitman

TO GEORGE WHITMAN like some placeless angel I wandered over your threshold and was caught–an animal without end became the streets you couldn’t walk you told me: Paris is free and I dissolved into...

Obituaries / Uncategorized

December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

So Hitch shuffled off this mortal coil — & I half-expect a full report on his own death to appear in the next issue of Vanity Fair under his by-line. I don’t wish him...

Obituaries / Uncategorized

December 14, 2011

So Long, George!

Photo by Will Brady This just in via the New York Daily News. First paras below, full article here. Sad indeed: I too lived for a number of months in one of the upstairs...

Obituaries / Poet

December 8, 2011

Christopher Logue (1926-2011)

Hadn’t heard about this (news from England are slow & hard to come by) until I saw it on Tom Raworth’s site, so here’s his tribute: Christopher Logue Filed under: — site admin @...

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.