My Heart Belongs to Dada
An excellent place to check up on little available or out of print or never translated European poets is Steven Fowler’s excellent work on the nth position site. Check it out: The fifth of...
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Liu Xiabobo @ 55
Today is Chinese poet, writer, activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiabobo‘s 55th birthday, which he ‘celebrates’ in jail. Below a poem of his written 9 April 1999, reprinted today in the German...
Cockelbergh’s “Marginalalia”
Peter Cockelbergh has just written what amounts to the first solid review of my book of essays, Justifying the Margins. For the occasion he has done way more: he has put together a feature...
Archipelago Books: The Perfect Gift
The estimable Archipelago Books continues to make available in English some the most important works of European literature. —Michael Dirda, The Wall Street Journal homepage • about • catalog • buy books • subscriptions...
An Evening with Adonis
Monday, November 1, 7:00pm Poets House River Terrace New York, 10282 (212) 431-7920 A Mirror for the Twentieth Century: An Evening with Adonis Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most...
Nomadic Nomadics
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...
Seven Minutes On Translation
Going through some folders I came across the little piece below which I gave orally somewhere in the seven minutes allotted for the occasion (can’t for the life of me remember where — if...
Bravo Archipelago Books: 2010 PEN Translation Prize to Heim for Claus’ Wonder
Wonder by Hugo Claus translated from the Dutch by Michael Henry Heim Michael Henry Heim has been awarded the 2010 PEN Translation Prize for his translation from the Dutch of Hugo Claus’s Wonder! The...
Wish I Were There…
MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ International Poetry Festival 3 – 5 September 2010 Chernivtsi, Ukraine The major theme of the festival is contemporary German and Ukrainian poetry. The participants are well-known poets from Ukraine, Austria, Germany and Switzerland...
Kali Claude Yug Pélieu Express 7
Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…) WRITTEN AND ERASED IN THE FRISCO SKY A bit of eternity in the pink window. Blond mountains riddled with poppies and corn-flowers. (Stones...
“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