{"id":380,"date":"2007-05-10T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2007-05-10T03:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T11:48:00","slug":"back-a-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/back-a-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Back, & a new book."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, I thought I’d be off-blog for a week in March when I traveled to Luxembourg for a reading on the occasion of my new book coming out from PHI \u2014 & now it is two months later & I am scrambling to get Nomadics back up & running. What happened? Easy enough: From Luxembourg I went to Paris for another reading, then back to Albany for the teaching they pay me for, then off to Paris again & from there to Tamanrasset, Algeria for a conference on the post-postcolonial, then back to Albany via Paris, for some more teaching, then up to Montreal for a writers’ gathering, and back to Albany yet again for a conference with & around Helene Cixous, and to finish the semester. And that’s where we are now \u2014 teaching done, papers nearly corrected, & a bit of time to catch up here.<\/p>\n

Let me start by going back to that first trip to Luxembourg for the publication of ALJIBAR by Editions PHI in a bilingual edition, with translations into French by Eric Sarner. Aljibar<\/span> is a collection of poems written between 2000 to 2005; as PHI wanted to publish it in a bi-lingual edition (which will mean that it will be published in two volumes, with Aljibar II<\/span> coming out next spring) this collection is not available as such in the US. For those interested, it can be purchased directly from the publisher, Editions PHI<\/a>, or, starting in late June, from the Canadian co-publisher, Editions des Forges<\/a>, or, directly via Ta’wil Productions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A note on the translations: Eric Sarner, poet, journalist, film-maker is an old friend who already translated a book of my poems into French (h.j.r.<\/span>, which came out in the same collection in 2002) & he had just finished a tv-documentary on route 66, &, with the advance for the book on the tv-docu, set up shop in Montevideo, Uruguay. During last December\/January we worked on a nearly daily basis via Skype visual computer-phone between Montevideo & Albany, going over Eric’s French versions of my poems: this was maybe the most pleasurable & delightful collaboration on a book of translations I’ve been involved in!<\/p>\n

And of course the title is not translated \u2014 a word that has come into English, although rare these days, from Arabic & that you can locate in the Thesaurus in the following context:<\/p>\n

from the Thesaurus:<\/p>\n

Store.<\/p>\n

[Nouns] stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.<\/p>\n

stock in trade, supply; heap (collection) [more]; treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche.<\/p>\n

crop, harvest, mow, vintage.<\/p>\n

store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay (provision) [more].<\/p>\n

storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank (treasury) [more]; armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie.<\/p>\n

reservoir, cistern, aljibar<\/span>, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer.<\/p>\n

budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio; coffer (receptacle) [more].<\/p>\n

conservation; storing; storage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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