Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
Essays / Poetics / Poetry / Translation
by Pierre Joris · Published June 25, 2012 · Last modified June 24, 2012
My conversation from earlier this year with Leonard Schwartz on translating Paul Celan’s Meridian first heard on his Cross Cultural Poetics radio program is now available via PennSound here as Episode #253: “Celan/Bronk,” 2012: Joris discusses his translation...
Arab Literature (in English) brought my attention to this study of translation: Mapping Translation: Into and Out of Arabic by mlynxqualey The big study that resulted from a number of translation reports — into and out...
"Arab Spring" / Arab Culture / Literature / Syria / Translation / Uncategorized
by Pierre Joris · Published June 1, 2012
This in via the Arab Literature (in English) site, where you can also read the rest of the article, and a further range of materials concerning Arab literature in translation, such as their previous post detailing...
Algeria / Poems for the Millennium / Poetry / Translation
by Pierre Joris · Published May 31, 2012 · Last modified June 8, 2012
From the forthcoming Poems for the Millennium 4: Three Poems by Hamid Skif COUNTER-POEM PIM PAM POUM Today’s the wedding PIM PAM POUM Cadillacs, Mercedes, Villas. Couscous with hot blood. PIM PAM POUM My hands...
…because the sun on the sea today made me think of him & Jean Sénac: Tahar Djaouat Sénac still present This rust inside me the sun revives. Obsessional smell of the wave...
Poetics / Poetry / Talk / Translation
by Pierre Joris · Published May 10, 2012 · Last modified May 9, 2012
Here is the new & improved (Nicole Peyrafitte’s videos now accurately inserted) version of the Harvard Celan talk of November 2011. Enjoy.
Do come to this & discover one of the great neglectorino poets as well as an excellent new Press! Friday, May 25, 5-7:30 p.m. MANHATTAN INN 632 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn
Interview with Jerome Rothenberg 27.04.2012 © Petr_Machan_PragueWritersFestival_2012 Jerome Rothenberg at the Prague Writers’ Festival Jerome Rothenberg was a guest at this year’s Prague Writers’ Festival and the acclaimed American poet spoke to me about...
with Serge Gavronsky, Mary Ann Caws, Lydia Davis, Pierre Joris, and Richard Sieburth FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012 2-6 PM JAMES ROOM, FOURTH FLOOR, BARNARD HALL A renowned poet and critic, and one of the...
The Albany Times Union newspaper picks up the Ghassan Zaqtan visa story: Palestinian poet’s U.S. visit delayed over visa issues April 5, 2012 at 2:36 pm by Michael Janairo, Arts & Entertainment Editor The Palestinian poet...
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.
More
“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
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“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