Rain Taxi Auction!

by Pierre Joris · January 19, 2007

Rain Taxi, my favorite, and I do honestly think, the best, magazine around for reviews of the current lit (be it poetry, prose, comics, etc.) I want to hear about, is trying to raise money to keep going — and so they have started another auction where you can buy a wide range of items that will hopefully put enough moola into the coffers to keep the presses rolling. Below the pitch from the Rain-Taxi site, and the url that will get you to the eBay auction location. If you never thought you’d hear me say something along these lines, well, here goes: Go & shop til you drop!

Rain-Taxi This year our auction contains a multitude of items, many of which were donated by authors in support of Rain Taxi! There are first editions, gorgeous broadsides, and hard-to-find chapbooks; in addition, we also have some quirky used and collectible books, as well as original artwork, comics, manuscript pages, and more! Many items are SIGNED by the authors and/or artists. Bidding is conducted on eBay–for full listings and the chance to support Rain Taxi and get cool stuff at the same time, click here!

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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.