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STAND4 Gallery: Karstic-Action VOTE 2024!
STAND4 Gallery, 414 78th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York 11209
Adeena Karasick, Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte
A Tribute to Tyrone Williams
Pierre Joris, Scott Laudati & Nicole Peyrafitte
Jerome Rothenberg (1931-2024) Celebration
Poetry Reading
ABOUT
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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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS IN PRINT
“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
Enjoy!!!
seems to me Cid once told me that he was the first to translate and publish Celan’s work… in Origin
and that Celan sued him to stop any of Cid’ further publication of his poems
there is also a very moving membrance piece by Jean Daive translated by Rosmarie Waldrop titled:
UNDER THE DOME: Walks with Paul Celan
Cid was there early on, but I think the first was Jerry Rothenberg who included his Celan translations in his 1959 City lights collection NEW YOUNG GERMAN POETS (I do a little bit of a history of that in my PAUL CELAN: SELECTIONS from UCP).
Daive’s book to me is somewhat troubling — I wanted to like it very much, but have some misgivings about it.
Still it’s good to have it.
I think that you are right-on entirely
I keep my Celan “stuff” next to my Bachman
and
from this distance I (still) get chills when-ever I revisit either’s work….
my mother’s family got out of Romania early on..
Papa Saul “saw the hand-writing on the wall” got out and into Lower Manhattan around 1905 …
originally they schlepped from Russia to Romania to USA from same area that Fiddler On The Roof takes place….
will see if i can locate a copy of Jerry’s book and yours as
I have the Hamburger Celan and John Felstiner’s:
Poet, Survivor, Jew
now filling in what I’ve missed (1974-2000) at 72
sure is a “trip” ;