{"id":10501,"date":"2013-06-10T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=10501"},"modified":"2013-06-09T18:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:11:26","slug":"meditations-on-the-stations-of-mansur-al-hallaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/meditations-on-the-stations-of-mansur-al-hallaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026(the complete set) is just out from Chax Press, with a gorgeous cover by Nicole Peyrafitte:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/al-HallajCover1-e1370815526347.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10502 lazyload\" alt=\"al-HallajCover2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/al-HallajCover1-e1370815526347.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"645\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/645;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">& the following endorsements:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All boundaries between the writing of Pierre Joris and that of Al- Hallaj are abolished with a view to an alliance that is renewed but not in view of an approach that would refuse the freedom of reading and writing. I call it an \u201calliance,\u201d because there is a divide, a rupture in each alliance. The duration of the alliance is, precisely, conditioned by how long the divides and ruptures last. \u2026 Through an extreme economy of words and through the elliptical construction of his verse, Joris joins Al-Hallaj. His poem is a flash of lightning. It is also an art sought out in a vision that crosses time and space to give meaning to a nomad poetics renewing its territory. The poem dares to live face-to-face with the impossible in speaking and writing. Thus does Joris turn Al-Hallaj\u2019s words into his own words, and even sees him as an example returning in a different epoch in another language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mohammed Bennis, author of <i>Sab\u2019atou touyour<\/i> (Seven Birds)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well-versed and well-read in Sufi mysticism, Joris appears throughout these captivating <i>Meditations<\/i> as a nomadizing poet-scholar \u2013 a <i>poeta doctus <\/i>in the classical sense: whether it is the manners, or pockets of the desert, Baghdad bombings, or Hallaj\u2019s set of stations that caught his eye (a <i>poeta vates<\/i>?) and fired up the engine of his writing, Joris \u2013 <i>poeta faber<\/i> \u2013 also always guides us back to the material <i>flux<\/i> of language that constitutes these <i>Meditations<\/i>. Start with the staggering soundscapes of these poems, indeed, <i>begin the beguine<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peter Cockelbergh, editor of <i>Pierre Joris \u2014Cartographies of the In-between<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can acquire the book via <a href=\"http:\/\/chax.org\">Chax Press <\/a>directly or via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/\">SPD<\/a> shortly, or by ordering from your favorite bookstore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026(the complete set) is just out from Chax Press, with a gorgeous cover by Nicole Peyrafitte: &#038; the following endorsements: All boundaries between the writing of Pierre Joris and that of Al- Hallaj are&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10505,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501\/revisions\/10505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}