{"id":11096,"date":"2013-11-08T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T12:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=11096"},"modified":"2013-11-08T02:39:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T06:39:23","slug":"raintaxi-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/raintaxi-review\/","title":{"rendered":"RainTaxi Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"poemsformillennium4\"<\/a>POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM<\/p>\n

Volume Four: North African Literature<\/div>\n
Edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour<\/div>\n
multiple translators<\/div>\n
University of California Press ($39.95)<\/a><\/div>\n
by Brooke Horvath<\/div>\n

The first two volumes of\u00a0Poems for the Millennium<\/em>anthologized experimental poetries from the fin de si\u00e8cle to the end of the twentieth century; the third gathered those Romantic and Post-Romantic poets out of whose work the several varieties of modernism emerged. All three volumes made room for writers from around the world but focused primarily on North Americans and Europeans. Volume Four, described by its editors as \u201ca natural progression from its predecessors,\u201d compiles work primarily from the Maghreb (North Africa from Tunisia west to Mauritania) and from al-Andalus (eighth- to fifteenth-century Moorish Iberia). Although their primary interest is poetry, the editors have made room for creation myths, folk tales, legends, riddles, pictographs, parables, and proverbs as well as excerpts from novels and from a great variety of nonfiction\u2014from Ibn Sharaf al-Qayrawani\u2019s eleventh-century \u201cOn Some Andalusian Poets\u201d and Maimonides\u2019s\u00a0Guide for the Perplexed<\/em>\u00a0to Tahar Haddad\u2019s 1929 plea for equal rights for women, Frantz Fanon on the \u201ccolonized intellectual,\u201d and Malek Alloula on postcards and the colonial gaze. […]<\/p>\n

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