Questions about Neruda’s Death
via BBC: Chile Communists request poet Pablo Neruda’s exhumation The Communist Party in Chile has asked for the remains of the poet Pablo Neruda to be exhumed due to allegations that he may have...
Category: Poet
Bei Dao: Today’s Chinese literature is uninspired
An article in today’s China Daily reports on one of the first visits to the mainland by Chinese poet Bei Dao in 20 years. And has him speak out on the situation of poetry...
Syrian Poet Aïcha Arnaout Interview
Unhappily I have only a French version & no time right now to translate into English. But here are the opening paragraphs of an interview by Cécile Oumhani with the Syrian poet Aïcha Arnaout....
Edwin Honig (1919-2011)
This just in via the New York Times, see full obituary there: Edwin Honig, a poet, critic and translator known for his elegant English renditions of seminal works of Spanish and Portuguese literature, died...
DESIRE: Robert Kelly by George Quasha, the Video
DESIRE: a speaking portrait of Robert Kelly from George Quasha on Vimeo.
from the “Diwan Ifrikiya” anthology: Assia Djebar
Assia Djebar — born in Cherchell in 1936 — is of course best known as the major Algerian novelist of her generation (Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade; A Sister to Scheherazade and Women of Algiers in their...
Reading in Granada
The reader of the Spanish translations is Uriel Antonio Molina.
“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