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Happy to announce BARZAKH, a new online magazine of writing & poetics. The first issue just went online & you can read it here<\/a>. Issue # 1 includes work by Alice Notley & Ted Berrigan,\u00a0 Barbara Jane Reyes, Michel Deguy, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Robert Kelly, Jerome Rothenberg, Habib Tengour, Jed Rasula, Edwin Torres, Rodrigo Toscano, and more. The magazine comes out of the English Department at the University at Albany, and Tomas Urayo\u00e1n Noel & I are faculty advisers. You can read some of our thoughts on the\u00a0 enterprise on Barbara Jane Reyes’ blog contribution to Harriet’s, here<\/a>. Below, I am copying the “about” page for more info:<\/p>\n Happy to announce BARZAKH, a new online magazine of writing & poetics. The first issue just went online & you can read it here. Issue # 1 includes work by Alice Notley & Ted...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,90,91,1],"tags":[181,732],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-magazines-reviews","category-poetics","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-barkakh-magazine","tag-ua-english-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","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=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
About Barzakh<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\nBarzakh<\/em> is a biannual multi-genre journal with an internationalist stance. Emerging out of the English department at the University at Albany, SUNY<\/a>, our focus is on innovative poetics, in keeping with a tradition of forward-looking department-based journals that spans from Don Byrd\u2019s co-editorship of Jed Rasula\u2019s Wch Way<\/em> in the 1970s to The Little Magazine<\/em> in the 1990s (our first issue features an interview with Rasula, and issues of both journals will be made available in our archive). We envisage the archive as a way to bring together our various departmental projects and initiatives, past and present, and to connect them to analogous or anomalous ventures elsewhere in the rhizomatic spirit of crossings that is Barzakh<\/em>. Ours is not an \u201cism\u201d but as an \u201cisthmus\u201d (see below) that links disparate articulations (between tongues, between histories) in the interplay of text, sound, and image. Welcome to<\/h5>\n
\u201cBarzakh\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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: a word \/ concept that names the connecting link, the \u201cbetween\u201d of something, such as different spheres of existence. As a temporal concept it can be, and historically was, considered an interval of time \u2014 say, the time between death and Resurrection in the Qu\u2019ran, similar to the Bardo Th\u00f6dol of\u00a0 the Tibetans, or the travel between life and death as the Egyptians imagined it. The Arabic word has the literal meaning of\u00a0 \u201cbarrier,\u201d \u201cveil,\u201d \u201ccurtain.\u201d Thus traditionally seen as a separator, it is however also and more interestingly thinkable as a \u201cbetween\u201d that links, and in that sense can be translated as \u201cisthmus.\u201d<\/h5>\n
For the great Arab mystic & poet Ibn Arabi, Barzakh<\/em> is a kind of purgatory\u2014the temporary and yet historical place which constitutes this, our world where we live and love and labor, aware that what we need most to find our way through is what the poet John Keats called \u201cnegative capability,\u201d i.e., the ability \u201cof being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.\u201d The idea of the Barzakh is thus not to map a territory but to travel along boundaries, crisscrossing always-to-be-redefined regions, in the process creating rhizomatic assemblages, de- and re-territorializing language-intensities as shifting fields of forces. As Stefania Pandolfo writes in the introductory chapter of Impasse of the Angels<\/em>: \u201cThe purpose \u2026 is not to map a territory, but to travel on the boundary of what Maghrib\u00ee writers of decolonization have called a diff\u00e9rence intraitable<\/em>: a hiatus which destabilizes the assignment of places and parts, which displaces the categories of classical and colonial reason and opens a heterological space of intercultural dialogue \u2014 an atopical intermediate region that might be called a Barzakh. There, in that interstitial mode of identity between languages and cultures, between genders and categorizations, a certain listening becomes possible.\u201d<\/h5>\n
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<\/h5>\n<\/h5>\n<\/h5>\nEditorial committee: <\/strong>editors@barzakh.net<\/em><\/h5>\n
James Belflower<\/h5>\n
Anna Elena Eyre<\/h5>\n
Natalie Knight<\/h5>\n
Pierre Joris and Tom\u00e1s Urayo\u00e1n Noel (faculty advisers)<\/h5>\n
<\/h5>\nWebmaster:<\/strong> webmaster@barzakh.net<\/em><\/h5>\n
Sandra Gardner \/ RedFrau<\/h5>\n
<\/h5>\nSubmissions to the journal:<\/strong> submissions@barzakh.net<\/em><\/h5>\n
\n<\/em><\/h5>\nSubmissions to the archive:<\/strong> archive@barzakh.net<\/em><\/h5>\n
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