RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”BOOKS IN PRINT
“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“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
The Mekas piece on the Dove anthology, which Dale Smith sent to me, is ok, as far as it goes, as a noticing, not a review. Mekas primarily responds to the lack of inclusion of writers from his generation, centered on the Beats, and appears not to have been following the American poetry of the past half dozen generations. He also misses what seems to me the primary negative crux of Dove’s editing: that it supports the replacement of poetry by creative writing. This is a terribly important and even apocalyptic matter that those of us who have initiated ourselves off ourselves and have not been brought into poetry via the educational system should be alarmed about. What is needed review-wise of the Dove “job” is a detailed review that among other things examines the differences between poetry and creative writing. CE
As a reader of the “Comment” only, it sounds like a good point. Mind you, I have never been a huge fan of the Beats. I know, shame on me. I do grant you their place in Anthologies. That said, it seems to me that (i) Anthologies should be representative of the generations they claim to cover and (ii) most Anthologies are flawed due to the massiveness of the undertaking itself and the natural bias of the anthologist(s). Also, there is a difference between poetry and creative writing. There is similarity too and thus, no doubt, the discussion. Art is art, creativity is creativity. I paint the broad brush strokes as time has taught me the devil lies in the details. Well, she does! The latter not being a sexist remark but a realistic one. A guy I could handle.