Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
Poetry / Poetry Festival / Poetry readings / Reading / Translation
by Pierre Joris · Published April 2, 2019
We are almost in Austin after an exhilarating drive through America and some memorable visits — special mentions to Serpent Mound and to Paris, Kentucky; you can find the documentation of these moments on...
Extracts from the excellent reading by Ammiel Alcalay in the * P r o s e P r o s * series hosted by Martha King & Elinor Nauen Thursday, May 3, 2018 at...
Be numerous, today, 14 January at 3p.m. at Boise State University (SUB Farnsworth Room) for the gathering & poetry reading demanding LIFE AND FREEDOM for poet Ashraf Fayadh, sentenced to death by a Saudi Court...
via Nicole’s blog: Lots of exciting events here in France & elsewhere. Opening of the exhibition WE WERE A VERY POOR JETSET 3 Saturday May 16th : Philippe TURC, Nicole PEYRAFITTE, Anne KIESECOMS Exposition...
Today one hundred years ago the German novelist Karl May died. The importance of his work for any German-language adolescent growing up in the 20C was enormous (at least until the sixties/seventies when a series of bad movies ruined...
Obituaries / Performance / Poetry / Reading / Uncategorized
by Pierre Joris · Published July 20, 2010
On Saturday a Tuli Kupferberg homage was held at Saint Marks in the Bowery’s Poetry Project. The Fugs performed a number of Tuli’s songs, and some 40 plus people spoke or read to honor...
Take this lunch hour — or 5 o’clock or high tea, or dinner or supper hour, whatever whenever you can accord yourself an hour for great pleasure and enlightenment — & listen to one...
Memorial for Leslie Scalapino Monday June 21, 2010 8:00 p.m. The Poetry Project 131 E. 10th St. New York NY 10003 212-674-0910 | info@poetryproject.org It is with heavy hearts that we will open the...
Tomorrow, in Brooklyn! ¥ P R O S E P R O S … 3rd Season ¥ Pierre Joris and Sanjay Agnihotri SIDEWALK CAFÉ Thursday, December 3, 2009 Come early to get a seat...
When I got back from the 2009 &now Lit fest in Buffalo — I give the event my three e’s award: exhilarating, excellent, exhausting — I thought I’d immediately post a few recordings I...
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