Equipage is re-launching
A Brian Dettmer piece from a series called Book Autopsies. You can see more of these on the Centripetal Notion site. * The note below just in via Peter Riley. I think of Equipage...
Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
A Brian Dettmer piece from a series called Book Autopsies. You can see more of these on the Centripetal Notion site. * The note below just in via Peter Riley. I think of Equipage...
Bill Griffiths in 1972, shortly before I met him. Here a nice appraisal of Bill Griffiths from a the local Newcastle paper “The Journal” (thanks to Ken Edwards for bringing it to my attention):...
Nina Hoss in “Yella” (photo courtesy Schramm Film Koerner & Weber) This past week signandsight put three new features online: Under the sign of half truth The dawn of a new era in Central...
The sad news just in that poet & friend Bill Griffiths died on 12 September. No details yet, though Tom Pickard’s message to Tom Raworth suggests heart attack. The tough-looking ex-biker who showed up...
My old friends Mary Beach & Claude Pélieu (who departed this mortal coil in 2006 and 2002, respectively) are having shows of their collage works in New York. Here is the info: September 14...
Just as I was swooning over my long lost summer & posting Miles’ photo of Pessoa & me, I came across the information below. Been waiting for Chris Daniel’s translations in particular for some...
For those in the Albany, NY area: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Pierre Joris Live From The Living Room Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held...
Traveling through Portugal this summer I visited Lisbon for the first time. Strange to have missed such a major European site for so many years. Miles & I wandered about the city, a many-hilled...
Ann CottenPhoto: Suhrkamp Verlag … or that could have been the newspaper headline of an article published in the Frankfurter Rundschau and now on sign&sight concerning Iowa-born, Vienna-raised & Berlin-inhabiting poet Ann Cotten, clearly...
Labor Day march across the Mackinac Bridge. After half a life time spent in These States, I still am not reconciled with Labor Day not being on 1 May. Damn you Grover Cleveland. So...
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