Nomadics

Well, off in a couple hours for a one week jaunt to Europe, a new book & readings in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg) and Metz & Paris (France). The posts to Nomadics will no doubt be...

CHAPBOOK RELEASE Anchorite Press is pleased to announce the release of a new collection of poems, MEDITATIONS ON THE STATIONS OF MANSOUR AL-HALLAJ, by Pierre Joris. Each handmade chapbook is 5.25 x 8.625 and...

Pierre Boulez. Photo © Monika Rittershaus,courtesy Staatsoper Unter den Linden Got to rush off to the University for committees & teaching. The day job. But just read a recent interview with Pierre Boulez, wonderfully...

This multi-lingual offering is perhaps only readable in my old home country, Luxembourg, as it happily mixes contributions in French (8), German (3), English (1) with some Letzeburgesch thrown in by several of the...

I have been following (mainly via sign&sight’s excellent coverage) the debate for or against multiculturalism that started after the publication of French new philosopher Pascal Bruckner’s attack on Ian Buruma and Timothy Garton Ash...

Working on my Maghrebian anthology project — a very slow, long-term process — I came across an Algerian poet whose name I had heard but whose work I hadn’t seen, and even now only...

A quick gander at this morning’s German papers comes up with an interesting item in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Englished résumé here thanks to signandsight: We learn from Sonja Zekri that for the first time...

Email just in from Daniela Hurezanu re Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Dear friends and acquaintances, After the announcement of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s death three weeks ago, a friend of mine and I tried to find a way...

An iceberg melting in Kulusuk, Greenland. Photograph: John McConnico/AP Yesterday I got the following info in an email from friend William Prescott (way back in the seventies we co-edited the magazine Sixpack) — Prescott...

George Lewis in 1982 In the latest issue of NYFA’s online magazine George Lewis, trombone player extraordinaire, electronic experimentalist and one of the great impro players it has been my pleasure to hang with...