Retrievals Reviewed
This review of JR’s latest book just out in the Jewish Daily Forward; first paras below; you can read the whole essay here. Lost Poems Shed Light on Jerome Rothenberg’s Work Author and Translator...
Category: Poetry
Jackson Mac Low Writing Through Ezra
Writing through Ezra (PoemTalk #46) Jackson Mac Low, “Words nd Ends from Ez” POEMTALK Jackson Mac Low, Ezra Pound LISTEN TO THE SHOW Writes Al Filreis, PoemTalk’s producer & host: PoemTalk travelled to Bard College,...
On Celan’s “Meridian”
A review of Paul Celan’s The Meridian just in via the British This Space blog. Below the opening paras. You can read the complete piece here. Poetry, ladies and gentleman: an expression of infinitude, an...
Taha Muhammad Ali (1931-2011)
Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 80. Adina Hoffman wrote a biography of Taha called My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness, and her husband Peter Cole has translated his poetry....
Leslie Scalapino: Personal Library Catalog & Fin de Siècle Performance @ PICA
This just in from LITMUS PRESS: WWW.LESLIESCALAPINO.COM/LIBRARY Greetings! We are pleased to announce that the catalog of Leslie Scalapino’s personal library is now available for browsing online at Library Thing, accessible via her website. Immense...
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...
Weekend Reading: Rexroth, Césaire & Collage
With the summer all but gone, the Maghrebi anthology all but done, the first week of teaching behind me, & a long weekend ahead, there may even be time to get some leisurely reading...
Ashur Etwebi: “Suns on a Stone”
As Libya frees herself, here is a poem by Libyan poet Ashur Etwebi, who said (in 2008): “An active world of literature and poetry has developed in Libya over the past thirty years. Little...
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...
“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