The Visual Puns of Retirement
Yesterday Nicole & I drove up to Albany & the University there to empty my office — sort of pre-retirement ritual (officially I’ll be emeritus 31 August) after 21 years of laboring in the hallowed halls of academia. My office compañero, Chris Rizzo, was on hand to lend one. At some point I looked up & noticed the following two pieces of paper scotched to the wall behind the desk, ready for use on the front door. Chris’ note covered mine just a little bit, but the result made us crack up — yeap, I won’t be back!
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“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
Seems I’m always offering you congratulations. Well done and well deserved!