{"id":8509,"date":"2012-06-16T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2012-06-17T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T19:26:19","slug":"5-questions-with_________","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/5-questions-with_________\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Questions with_________"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off for a week’s teaching at Naropa, so there will be few posts until I return, meanwhile check out this little interview I gave Maryam Monalisa Gharavi for\u00a0The New Inquiry<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Five Questions with Pierre Joris<\/h3>\n

By\u00a0MARYAM MONALISA GHARAVI<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Five Questions with\u00a0__________ is an experiment with flash interviews. The series on poets continues with\u00a0poet, essayist, anthologist, and translator Pierre\u00a0<\/em>Joris. Years ago, after the sudden death of a poet I admired I took a personal vow to translate his dense and difficult volume of poetry, spurring me on to find poets who had already wrestled with that beastly endeavor. \u00a0Pierre had arrived to discuss his legendary translations of Paul Celan. What really grabbed my attention, though, was a tattoo on his arm carved with the Arabic word\u00a0<\/em>hajara\u00a0(\u0647\u062c\u0631<\/em>\u00a0to emigrate or relinquish, in the sense of exile). To this day I have not seen a more striking tattoo.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In what city do you most easily shed your invisible social armor?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I first read \u2018invincible\u2019 in which case no shedding would be required or advisable. Now, if it is \u2018invisible,\u2019 then the question becomes: invisible for whom, for me or for the social entities (socialites as in social-lite-s?). I\u2019m only half-kidding\u2014the question puzzles me somewhat. And I don\u2019t know if or how it relates to cities. At first I was going to write \u2018in Lyonnesse\u2019 the great magical imaginary city of Arthurian legend, but in truth it is the city that has always been my favorite one\u2014maybe because it allows that shedding\u2014and that is New York.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for the whole piece.<\/p>\n


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