That Old New British Poetry Scene
Came across an interesting piece by Kent Johnson on the new British Poetry scene on the digital emunction site — with the discussion that follows as interesting as what started it. At the same...
Category: Translation
Two or Three Things that have come my Way
Recently came across a new online internationalist — thus translation — oriented magazine, Cerise Press, edited & published between the US and France. Check it out — I am of course immediately very taken...
Bianu's Ritual for Amplifying the World
Europe’s behind me — salt over the shoulder — until the next trip (a November performance with Nicole Peyrafitte in Angoulême) — meanwhile it is a treat to be back in Brooklyn, watching the...
Tibouchi's Rouille/Rust
And in my translation this poem by Algerian poet/painter Hamid Tibouchi gives: rust the city in its entirety prey to rust bites deeper day after day inexorably spreading its ochres
Translate in the Catskills
Chris Durban has asked me to post the following information: Translate in the Catskills: August 21-22/23, 2009 Join us at the Sugar Maples campus of the Catskill Mountain Foundation for a two-day seminar exclusively...
Another Mandelstam Poem via Celan
From Paul Celan’s radio-essay on Osip Mandelstam, here is a further Mandelstam poem — a very literal translation of Celan’s German version. Earlier extracts of this piece can be found here, here and here....
Mandelstam via Celan (2)
Last December I posted the opening of Paul Celan’s radio-essay on Osip Mandelstam — which you can read here — and earlier still some the notes Celan wrote when composing the radio-essay — which...
"Whisk! Don't Churn!" Reviews & more
Two reviews of Nicole Peyrafitte & Michael Bisio’s CD Whisk! Don’t Churn!: — Laura Hinton: “How to Cook Live Poetry: The performance Art of Nicole Peyrafitte” —>here —Greg Haymes review in the Albany Times...
George Economou on C.P. Cavafy Translations
Some weeks ago, The New York Times Book Review published a review of recent translations of the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy. A rather sloppy job by someone who doesn’t in fact know Greek. The...
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...
“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