Poems, a Dialogue & some Translations
* * * Douglas Glover’s Numéro Cinq blog/site has just published two texts — “5 Movements of the Soul” and “Hodgepotch” — by Habib Tengour in my translation. You can read them here....
Tagged: Habib Tengour
Ulysses among the Fundamentalists (3)
And here, the final installment of Habib Tengour’s short fiction extracted from Gens de Mosta: In the afternoon, after they had finished reading the report on morality, he discreetly left the conference to walk...
Nomadic Nomadics
Arrived in Mostaganem, Algeria tonight for a 2 day conference on translation organized by the Amazigh (i.e. Berber) High Authority at the University here. Thus, with apologies, no postings for the last 3 days...
Tengour Talks to a Scorpion, No, the Other way Around
Quiet weekend working on translations, specifically on the Habib Tengour Reader, scheduled for publication late this year or early next from Black Widow Press. Here is an extract from the prose narrative L’épreuve de...
Maghrebi Lunch Break
First somewhat sunny day in Paris was two days ago, and so Habib Tengour and I went out to Ménilmontant to meet up with some friends at a Kabyle restaurant for lunch. Though we...
The Rimbaldian Pleasures of Paris
An afternoon spent walking the streets of Paris, stopping every so often in a bookshop, then walking on for awhile until the temptation is too much & I have to sit on the terrace...
Translations of Maghrebian Poets
Two of my translations of work by Maghrebian poets have just come out: — Habib Tengour’s “Ordeal2” in the third issue of Cerise magazine — — An extract of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Moi l’aigre in...
Tengour Reading @ Albany U
Below, a YouTube’d snippet of the poetry reading Habib Tengour gave at the University at Albany on 31 March. He is reading the opening section of the poem sequence “Café Marine”:
One busy week…
Well, indeed, that was one busy week: after picking up Habib Tengour at Newark airport early Sunday afternoon (with about an hour extra time in customs thanks to his Arab passport), we made it...
Mirror Images: Challenges for Arab & Islamic Studies
I’ll be on the road from today to Saturday/Sunday, specifically at the Villanova University Mirror Images: Challenges for Arab & Islamic Studies conference (see full program here), & thus unlikely to post for a...
“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