Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.

Tagged: Frédéric Maintenant

Music / Performances / Poetry readings

September 25, 2011

Nicole Peyrafitte’s Tour de France

Adishatz, Bonjour, Hello! Si vous êtes dans une des villes ci-dessous ça me fera bien plaisir de vous voir. En attendant: portats pla et amistats –c’est à dire: portez vous bien et amitiés! Nicole...

Concert / Live Reading / Performances

September 5, 2011

Nicole Peyrafitte’s Fall Program

Bonjour! Hope this message finds you well and all recovered from the storm. Below is my schedule for the next month. A lot of exciting gigs coming up here in NYC and in France....

Improvisation / Music / Performance / Poetry

August 7, 2011

If In The Pyrenees, Catch Us…

Centre de Montagne / Germ-Louron Mercredi 10 Août 2011 19h : Fredreric Maintenant / piano / apéro / jardin 20h : repas (nombre limité, il faut réserver! voir détail ci-dessous) 21h 30 ...

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.