Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
Just in: César Vallejo’s Against Professional Secrets from Roof Books, translated by Joseph Mulligan. A lovely book, indeed. Details, more blurbs, here. What I wrote for the back cover: These small (by word-count only) proses...
Environment / Independent Publishers / Intellectuals / Prose
by Pierre Joris · Published January 21, 2011
… as the snowploughs drive me out of sleep & bed to the desk where I open the window against the offensive heat of a mid-winter Brooklyn apartment building, and relax in the light...
Fifty years ago today, Dashiell Hammett died. He was certainly my favorite hard-boiled American novelist, and someone whose core books I like to reread every few years. I remember fierce discussions about his work...
And here, the final installment of Habib Tengour’s short fiction extracted from Gens de Mosta: In the afternoon, after they had finished reading the report on morality, he discreetly left the conference to walk...
A bit of time on my hands, so here is the second instalment of Habib Tengour’s story: (…) He never understood his father’s gesture. To have abandoned the struggle mid-ay through seemed like an...
Algeria / Maghrebi Literature / Poet / Prose / Translation
by Pierre Joris · Published October 10, 2010
Arrived in Mostaganem, Algeria tonight for a 2 day conference on translation organized by the Amazigh (i.e. Berber) High Authority at the University here. Thus, with apologies, no postings for the last 3 days...
Poetry / Prose / Summer Reading
by Pierre Joris · Published September 16, 2010 · Last modified September 19, 2010
Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…& that’s all folks!) THE COLD BANK Ray was in the hollow of a wave. He didn’t believe in his electric identity. And I...
Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…) IT’S BETTER THAN NO ONE X ended up by being tired of being someone else and playing the role of no one. X...
Poetry / Prose / Summer Reading / Uncategorized
by Pierre Joris · Published September 8, 2010 · Last modified September 7, 2010
Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…) THE ZIM ZUM LANDSCAPE A felled tree reinvents time — a dirty song in the depths of time — amphetamines have eroded night,...
Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…) COCA NEON CAMERA SUTRA FUCK TO THE BONE! Some time ago I lent a few slogans to the wind, just for laughs. A...
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.
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“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“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”
“Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader” edited & translated by Pierre Joris
“Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj”
“Paul Celan: The Meridian Final Version”—Drafts—Materials
“Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between” edited by Peter Cockelbergh
“The University of California Book of North African Literature”
4×1 : Works by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey and Habib Tengour
PABLO PICASSO The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems
Poasis (Selected Poems 1986-1999)
Poems for the Millennium 1 & 2
ppppp-Poems Performances Pieces Proses Plays Poetics by Kurt Schwitters
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux