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Nora Joris-Schintgen 1922-2011

by Pierre Joris · March 19, 2011

Memento Amori

“Naissance et mort — l’affaire de quelqu’un d’autre.

Pour nous, le long entre-deux: ne pas s’inquiéter.

Nora, lumière en nous, toujours.”

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Poo says:

March 19, 2011 at 2:39 pm

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

…Ralph Waldo Emerson

And what a fine job she did. Her rest has been well earned.

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Natacha Deleurence says:

March 19, 2011 at 5:22 pm

Yes, she did a very fine job. I’m so sorry…
Love from Natacha, Marseille

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Joe Amato says:

March 20, 2011 at 4:04 pm

So sorry for your loss, Pierre, Kass and I are thinking about you… love///

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cveditions says:

March 21, 2011 at 4:02 pm

Pierre, my condolences. Take care, Pam

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Mark Bromberg says:

March 23, 2011 at 10:58 am

I am sending all good thoughts to you and your family, Pierre.

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Susan Schultz says:

March 24, 2011 at 11:26 pm

My condolences, Pierre. The loss of a mother is large, but her light will be in you, always.

aloha, Susan

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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.