{"id":16631,"date":"2019-09-12T11:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=16631"},"modified":"2019-09-12T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:41:40","slug":"scorpionic-sun-by-mohamed-khair-eddine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/scorpionic-sun-by-mohamed-khair-eddine\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpionic Sun by Mohamed Kha\u00efr-Eddine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"productSummary\" class=\"clear\">\n<div id=\"productGallery\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1563910877813_331\" class=\"intrinsic\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1563910877813_330\" class=\"wrapper\">\n<div id=\"productSlideshow\" class=\"sqs-gallery-design-stacked\">\n<div data-slide-index=\"1\" data-image-id=\"5cfa843f59b810000120b998\" data-type=\"image\"><\/div>\n<div data-slide-index=\"1\" data-image-id=\"5cfa843f59b810000120b998\" data-type=\"image\"><\/div>\n<div data-slide-index=\"1\" data-image-id=\"5cfa843f59b810000120b998\" data-type=\"image\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1563910877813_267\" class=\"slide sqs-gallery-design-stacked-slide sqs-active-slide loaded\" data-slide-index=\"1\" data-image-id=\"5cfa843f59b810000120b998\" data-type=\"image\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1563910877813_329\" class=\"loaded aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/545a9571e4b091e613f3827e\/1559921728665-HFEZS27MGICSQG4BAEQO\/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kO4ZbJrAHPDdLUPzr7GnDcV7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1UU6UJ00QspF9bY81J923v7HJqyIGJkKjix_QJhhseYcAMRTBeoc2janXeSQRP-ELbQ\/Khair-Eddine+cover+final.jpg?format=750w\" alt=\"Khair-Eddine cover final.jpg\" width=\"486\" height=\"648\" data-load=\"false\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/545a9571e4b091e613f3827e\/1559921728665-HFEZS27MGICSQG4BAEQO\/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kO4ZbJrAHPDdLUPzr7GnDcV7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1UU6UJ00QspF9bY81J923v7HJqyIGJkKjix_QJhhseYcAMRTBeoc2janXeSQRP-ELbQ\/Khair-Eddine+cover+final.jpg\" data-image=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/545a9571e4b091e613f3827e\/1559921728665-HFEZS27MGICSQG4BAEQO\/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kO4ZbJrAHPDdLUPzr7GnDcV7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1UU6UJ00QspF9bY81J923v7HJqyIGJkKjix_QJhhseYcAMRTBeoc2janXeSQRP-ELbQ\/Khair-Eddine+cover+final.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1800x2400\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-parent-ratio=\"1.0\" data-image-resolution=\"750w\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"productDetails\" data-variants=\"[{&quot;attributes&quot;:{},&quot;optionValues&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:&quot;bcb5e274-4de2-465f-bf64-70c13cd1ffde&quot;,&quot;sku&quot;:&quot;SQ6412888&quot;,&quot;price&quot;:1600,&quot;salePrice&quot;:0,&quot;priceMoney&quot;:{&quot;currency&quot;:&quot;USD&quot;,&quot;value&quot;:&quot;16.00&quot;},&quot;salePriceMoney&quot;:{&quot;currency&quot;:&quot;USD&quot;,&quot;value&quot;:&quot;0.00&quot;},&quot;onSale&quot;:false,&quot;unlimited&quot;:false,&quot;qtyInStock&quot;:0,&quot;width&quot;:0.0,&quot;height&quot;:0.0,&quot;weight&quot;:1.0,&quot;imageIds&quot;:[],&quot;images&quot;:[],&quot;len&quot;:0.0}]\">\n<div class=\"product-excerpt\" data-content-field=\"excerpt\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Poetry | Mohammed Kha\u00efr-Eddine, translated by Conor Bracken | September 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&amp; with a preface by Pierre Joris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cleveland State Poetry Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">978-1-880834-38-1<br \/>\n124 pgs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1563910877813_355\" class=\"product-description\">\n<div id=\"item-5cfa842df224b10001f5f2ae\" class=\"sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12\" data-layout-label=\"Post Body\" data-type=\"item\" data-updated-on=\"1559922296121\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1563910877813_354\" class=\"row sqs-row\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1563910877813_353\" class=\"col sqs-col-12 span-12\">\n<div id=\"block-a7b1a138ba7b98b86250\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1563910877813_352\" class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Release Date September 10, 2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">from my <strong>Preface<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>From the start I located MKE in a constellation of poet-workers in the French language that lit &amp; linked my night sky across the Atlantic: two in France itself (though both fierce travelers through much of their lives), Antonin Artaud &amp; Henri Michaux, &amp; two on the western edge of the Atlantic: Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire &amp; Edouard Glissant. There are numerous ways in which those writers (at this point much better known in the US than MKE, although all five are of the same caliber) can be useful to the reader coming newly to this book, from Artaud\u2019s intense fierceness, not to say metaphysical violence in works such as <i>To be Done With the Judgment of God<\/i>, to Edouard\u2019s Glissant\u2019s demand for a \u201cright to opacity that is not enclosure within an impenetrable autarchy but subsistence within an irreducible singularity.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Maghrebi &amp; Berber cultural substratum has an autochthonous \u201csurrealistic\u201d ground and a spiritual structure specific to it. The Algerian poet Habib Tengour speaks well to this, suggesting that a form of visionary surrealism has been a traditional, omni-present aspect of the culture, reaching as far back as the great Sufi Cheihk &amp; poet Ibn Arabi to make his point. In the essay \u201cMaghribi Surrealism\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Tengour writes: \u201cIt is, finally, in Maghribi Sufism that surrealist subversion inserts itself: \u2018pure psychic automatism,\u2019 \u2018<i>amour fou<\/i>,\u2019 revolt, unexpected encounters, etc\u2026. There always resides a spark of un(?)conscious Sufism in those Maghribi writers who are not simply smart operators \u2013 go reread Kateb [Yacine] or Kha\u00efr-Eddine.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Go read Mohammed Kha\u00efr-Eddine, now that we are lucky enough to have the volume that opens his oeuvre finally available in English.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1563910877813_352\" class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Praise for <em>Scorpionic Sun:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mohammed Kha\u00efr-Eddine\u2019s poems speak from 1969 to the present with urgency, through an explosively anachronistic act of translation by Conor Bracken. As Kha\u00efr-Eddine writes in \u201cBlack Nausea,\u201d the poems \u201coffer to the future this weird \/ fruit \/ which speaks in the mouths \/ of the thousands of innocents dead \/ in our black blood.\u201d The distortive energies of Kha\u00efr-Eddine\u2019s \u201clinguistic guerilla war\u201d\u00a0agitate for a politically convulsive poetry that dares to be strange, spastic and abjectly sublime.\u00a0This is a return of a political surrealism when its convulsive bloom is most needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>\u2014Johannes G\u00f6ransson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">No, decolonizing is not a metaphor, but it is a proposal emerging from the place where land and consciousness meet. To get closer to that place Kha\u00efr-Eddine\u2019s\u00a0<em>Scorpionic Sun<\/em>\u00a0resists any nation state\u2014or any reader\u2014who would take up land or consciousness, song or bodies as mere instruments. Wisely, then, Conor Bracken\u2019s translation doesn\u2019t so much use as it delivers English into the brutal ongoingness of what Teresa Villa-Ignacio has called Kha\u00efr-Eddine\u2019s \u201cseismic line.\u201d Thus thoroughly shaken and gone we can find one another \u201cby a necessary association with events to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>\u2014Farid Matuk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kha\u00efr-Eddine grabbed hold of the French language with a violent passion; he loved it ferociously, without concession, without moderation. Along with Kateb Yacine and Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire, it is he who has done the most to rattle and enrich the language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>\u2014Tahar Ben Jelloun, <em>Le Monde<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Mohammed Kha\u00efr-Eddine<\/strong> (1941\u20131995) was an Amazigh Moroccan poet and writer. In the 1960s, he established the Po\u00e9sie Toute movement and co-founded the avant-garde journal <em>Souffles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Conor Bracken <\/strong>is a poet, translator, and assistant professor of English at the University of Findlay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry | Mohammed Kha\u00efr-Eddine, translated by Conor Bracken | September 2019 &amp; with a preface by Pierre Joris Cleveland State Poetry Center 978-1-880834-38-1 124 pgs Release Date September 10, 2019\u00a0 from my Preface: From&#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-16631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631","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=16631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16636,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631\/revisions\/16636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}