Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
by Pierre Joris · Published · Updated
Eye of the Thistle
Schist / Slate Face: You’d love to write on it.
Nicole @ the Center of one World
Doing the there-is-a-free-lunch thing
by Pierre Joris · Published August 2, 2012
by Pierre Joris · Published April 18, 2010
by Pierre Joris · Published January 20, 2013
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.
More
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“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”
“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
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Thanks. Nice to feel included.
Wonderful Pyrenean pics. Love Dianthus flowers and there is a special taste to found food when one is on a walk.
Great wall of schist. Very gneiss! No schist! Heh. Beautiful sheer, flow cleavage there. Schistosity. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/527450/schistosity
Great for wine. http://www.beveragebusiness.com/archives/article.php?cid=1&eid=30&aid=225
Glad fracking has been banned in France: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-01/france-vote-outlaws-fracking-shale-for-natural-gas-oil-extraction.html
Do they have a war on terroirists in that part of the world? *feeling lousily punny this overcast Hell’s Kitchen afternoon
Schist terroirist http://books.google.com/books?id=gt517z302YcC&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=schist+terroir&source=bl&ots=LClvq6RUk7&sig=wW3-ufBcShxbVNZKYBnvY7zQWco&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j_UeUPLJI8mN6wGc3YH4Cg&sqi=2&ved=0CG0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=schist%20terroir&f=false
Love the geological map of the Pyrenees, you can see how intense the geological action was there, where Spain meets France, a bit like India meets China with the Himalayan range. http://ccgm.free.fr/Pyrenees_geol_gb.html Even some similar alpine creatures as the Himalayas, the lammergeier, ibex (sadly now extinct since 2000 !), bear.
Like knowing humans are made of carbon from stardust, there’s something magic in knowing the local Pyrenees wine is flavored with the nutrients from rock 200,000,000 years old.