Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010)
Tuli Kupferberg passed away today at noon.
Good-bye Tuli! Terrific Human Being, Poeta, pacifist anarchist, publisher, writer, musician, Manhattan Bridge enjambeur, Fug!
Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
by Pierre Joris ·
Tuli Kupferberg passed away today at noon.
Good-bye Tuli! Terrific Human Being, Poeta, pacifist anarchist, publisher, writer, musician, Manhattan Bridge enjambeur, Fug!
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by Pierre Joris · Published September 2, 2010
by Pierre Joris · Published September 14, 2009
by Pierre Joris · Published April 8, 2011
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.
More
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“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”
“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
That was a fun night in NYC for the Fugs “last concert”. Where are the new Tulis?
Tuli was one of a kind,after him there only pale imitators,a poet with a personal voice that produced 53 books of poems…wow, it is a victory for the Beats and for Tuli to publish so much in a hostile literary society.I loved him and will fallow his beacon till the end! Rest in peace Valery and Ruth Oisteanu
Very sad to hear this. I was just thinking about him, when I was blogging about Ed Sanders last month.
Bob
Tuli Nothing!
What a haunting, historic and tender looking hero in this b&w picture. It is great to honor him. See you the memorial at St. Mark’s Church on Saturday I hope.