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Logic of the World: The Poetics of Robert Kelly

by Pierre Joris · Published April 8, 2011 · Updated April 8, 2011

CELEBRATING ROBERT KELLY’S 75TH BIRTHDAY & HIS
50 YEARS TEACHING AT BARD COLLEGE
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2011 FROM 10 AM – 5 PM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
MAYA DEREN ROOM, 32 SECOND AVE, NEW YORK, NY

EVERY MARK CONTAINS A MICROSCOPIC TEXT WE BEND TO READ (RK)
A readerly conversation among scholars, companions, and poets that has as its axis specific poems and groupings of Robert Kelly’s poems (or prose) and that includes the extraordinary spectrum of experience, worlds, and histories that Robert Kelly’s poetry engages in its making.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. LEARN MORE HERE.

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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.