Nagisa Oshima (1932-2013)
“To make films is a criminal act in this world.”
“Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.”
(Nagisa Oshima)
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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.
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“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
this is a beautifully filmed film …
I have a copy of it and i thank you for reminding me
to find (some of) his other films especially I want to see Empire of Passion
which like In the Realm of the Senses is probably (free) on the net:
http://potlocker.net/in-the-realm-of-the-senses/1976/af22c9974.html
I also will look for his
Death by Hanging
http://www.ovguide.com/death-by-hanging-9202a8c04000641f80000000011d1aa1
“Who Do You Want, Peire Vidal” a play by Rochelle Owens (Broadway Play Pub.) produced by
Theatre for the New City , 1982 New York City starring Ron Nakahara, alludes to the film “In the Realm of the Senses.
Rochelle
you yet around and about ? NEAT !
my first of your poems was in (wait, I have it on my shelf. Between some Barbara Moraff and some Diane Wakoski) I have the third printing (1969)
and just as then now those last three poems of yours
‘knock-me-out’ especially
HERA HERA HERA
Thanks Ed, And I admire your remarkable range
of expression! Rochelle