Rodrigo Toscano @ Albany U
Lovely performance last night here by Rodrigo Toscano with a number of poet-grad students (Natalie Knight, James Belflower, Anna Eyre & Colie Collen) and poet & faculty member Tomàs Urayoan Noel. A performance, rather than a “reading,” as Toscano works more and more towards a theatre of poetry or a poetry of theater. On this occasion, the central piece (for three performers) with few words but much physical movement, was framed by two pieces for multiple performers and many words, marvelous illustrations of Toscano’s “Collapsible Poetics Theater.” Here a few photos by friend Dan Wilcox:


Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000-2024
“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
Thanks for posting these Pierre.
What a fun performance to be in!
Yes, it really was. I was floating around on it all week. I should note, Pierre, though it really doesn’t matter, that I’m not a grad student. Just a tagger-along.