RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”BOOKS IN PRINT
“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“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
Richter’s version of Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 was, I think, the first piece of classical music to take off the top of my head…
Mr. Amato has made me feel guilty and stupid all at once. I cannot seem to nail the time or the classical piece that first took off ‘the top of my head.” I have narrowed it down to Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ , the Preludes of Debussy or Gershwin, either Rhapsidy in Blue or American in Paris. I just cannot seem to remember which one as it is likely my early exposure to this form of music came rather all at once. My classical memory is a tad mushy. Rock and Roll? Easy, that would be Sgt. Pepper. Anyhow , the Richter was much enjoyed.
Poo, I might be guilty myself of myth-making! Surely I heard classical music prior to the Richter/Brahms that moved me. And I love Debussy, Chopin, Gershwin, et al. But I think the Richter (final movement esp.) was the first piece to call attention to itself to such a degree, or in such a way, that I felt obligated to learn more. In jazz it was Thelonious Monk.
And in rock, well: long live Sgt. Pepper!
Joe, very charmingly said. Thank you. The last time Gershwin moved me I was driving into New York on my way to Brooklyn. The Manhattan sky line made me pop a Gershwin CD into the dash. I found myself in the wrong lane, became quite addled and ended up in the Bronx. Don’t ask, the rest of the tale is tawdry.
Bruno Monsaingeon’s 1998 film, Richter: The Enigma (easily fond on DVD), highly recommended for insight into his approach, and some great concert footage . . .