Wassyla Tamzali & Pierre Joris on France Culture

by Pierre Joris · March 13, 2008

The programs aired last week, but can be listened to for a month or so in the program’s archives. They can also be podcast.

émission du vendredi 7 mars 2008
Tanger : identités fugitives (5/5): voyage, errances et nomadisme.

A l’occasion du 12ème Salon International du Livre de Tanger (qui s’est tenu cette année du 27 février au 2 mars 2008), Raphaël Enthoven et François Caunac se sont rendus sur place à la rencontre de différents auteurs participant à cette manifestation pour les NCC.
Située à la pointe nord de l’Afrique, Tanger est l’incarnation même de la frontière. Le métissage social et culturel qui en fait sa richesse, pose encore plus fortement qu’ailleurs, la question, complexe, de l’identité et de la diversité (sociale, culturelle et religieuse).

	Invités

Wassyla Tamzali. Avocate à Alger, ex-directrice du Droit des femmes à l’UNESCO.

Pierre Joris. Poète et traducteur, auteur de « A nomad poetics » (Wesleyan University Press) et à propos du CD « Routes, not roots » (Une sélection de ses poèmes de 1986 à 1999).

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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.