Nomadics

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

Category: Poetry

Poetry

Günter Ullmann (1946-2009)

German poet, memoirist, painter, sculptor & musician Günter Ullmann died last week. He was born in East Germany in 1946 and as he writes: “My mother was a Christian, my father was a party...

Poetry / Poets

Robin Blaser (1925-2009)

“…that was the beginning of my life in poetry — to find out that poetry had the most extraordinary intelligence, and that it would just wander and and wander and wonder. And so, I...

Poetry / Translation

Unica Zürn's Anagrams

Last week’s reading at The Drawing Center brought back the pleasure I had when translating and working on Unica Zürn’s anagrammatic poems. I had published these nine translations back in the early nineties in...

Book Reviews / Literature / Palestine / Poetry

Sunday Reads

Some Sunday morning reads (& an added game): JG Ballard’s last short story, The Dying Fall, just published by the Guardian, here. J.G. Ballard in 2007 There’s more pictures & writing on Ballard here. *...

Poetry

May Day by Robert Kelly

In 2007 Parsifal Press in Toronto published Robert Kelly’s May Day, his most recent selection of  shorter poems (written between 2003 and 2005). Unhappily Parsifal Press has gone out of business. Happily Charlotte Mandell...

Poetry / Translation

Henri Meschonnic (1932-2009)

Henri Meschonnic wanted “to translate not what words say, but what they do.” At times wonderfully, at times unbearably irascible, but always controversial and “incontournable” (unavoidable), Meschonnic  — poet, linguist, translator and theoretician — passed away...

Iraq / Poetry

What is this time?

What is this timewhen a people no longer has a namebecause it lives without a presentIt penetrates the splinters of the explosionA past, waking from a long nightmare, pursues itIt rolls its head before...