Denis Roche (1937-2015)
Oh, Denis has called it splitsville! Sadness, a drag — A bright, witty, generous man, sharp as a tack — & absolutely not known enough here in the US. Roche, who started in the surrounds of...
Nomadics Blog
The PEN Ten with Dunya Mikhail
A pleasure to see this interview with Dunya Mikhail on the PEN site. Below the opening sparagraphs; tou can read the whole interview here. By: Randa Jarrar PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 25, 2015 Photo of...
A Book of Foxes…
…just reissued by Metambesem Press: When A Single-Minded Bestiary was first published in 1974, Ted Berrigan wrote: ““What we have here is ANIMAL MAGIC. Pierre Joris is the fox crossing the water; he is the...
Remembering Nola 2005
We flew to New Orleans in the first week of November 2005, i.e. two months after Katrina had struck, for readings & meeting with friends. From notes I took while there I put together the following poem...
World Shakespeare and the ‘Arab Spring’
via the excellent Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 28, 2015 • ( 0 ) “Who’s Shakespeare?” a character asks in a new translation of Tunisian-Swedish writer Jonas Hassan Khemiri’s Invasion: Arab adaptations and...
A Visit to Dismaland
Dismaland from Alex Jefferis on Vimeo.
Stephen Rodefer (1940-2015)
Travel well, old friend. & Charles Olson on SR: ” “Youthful what? Where is Rodefer, he’ll know. That damn Lycidas. Whatever else England draws upon, it’s native talent will out. The damn Lycidas!...
2015 Arab-American Book Awards Go to Much-lauded Novels
via the great Arab literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 11, 2015 • ( 0 ) Laila Lalami and Rabih Alameddine were the two headliners on the 2015 Arab-American Book Awards winners’ list. Both their...
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“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”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux