Pierre Joris

Pierre Joris (born July 14, 1946) is a Luxembourger-American poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist. He has moved between Europe, North Africa, and the United States for fifty-five years, publishing over eighty books of poetry, essays, translations and anthologies — most recently ''Interglacial Narrows'' (Poems 2015-2021) and ''Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between'', with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: ''Microliths They Are, Little Stones'' (Posthumous prose, from CMP) and ''The Collected Earlier Poetry'' (FSG). In 2019 Spuyten Duyvil Press published ''Arabia (not so) Deserta'' (essays on Maghrebi and Mashreqi literature and culture). Other recent books include: ''A City Full of Voices: Essays on the Work of Robert Kelly'' (co-edited with P. Cockelbergh and J.Newberger, CMP, 2020); ''Adonis and Pierre Joris, Conversations in the Pyrenees'' (CMP 2018); ''Stations d'al-Hallaj'' (translated by Habib Tengour; Apic Editions, Algiers, 2018); ''The Book of U'' (poems, 2017, Editions Simoncini, Luxembourg). His translation of Egyptian poet Safaa Fathy's ''Revolution Goes Through Walls'' came out in 2018 from SplitLevel. In June 2016 the Théatre National du Luxembourg produced his play ''The Agony of I.B.'' (published by Editions PHI). Earlier publications include: ''An American Suite'' (early poems; inpatient press 2016); ''Barzakh: Poems 2000-2012'' (Black Widow Press 2014); ''Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan'' (FSG 2014); ''A Voice full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly'' (co-edited with Peter Cockelbergh; 2014, Contra Mundum Press) and ''The University of California Book of North African Literature'' (volume 4 in the Poems for the Millennium series, coedited with Habib Tengour, 2012).

Forthcoming are: Paul Celan's ''Todesfuge'' (Small Orange Import, 2023) and ''Diwan of Exiles: A Pierre Joris Reader'' (edited with Ariel Reznikoff, 2024).

In 2011 Litteraria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, published ''Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-between'', edited by Peter Cockelbergh, with essays on Joris' work by, among others, Mohammed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Jean Portante, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff and Nicole Peyrafitte (2011).

Other books include ''The Meridian: Final Version—Drafts—Materials'' by Paul Celan (Stanford U.P. 2011), Canto Diurno #4: ''The Tang Extending from the Blade'', (poems, 2010), ''Justifying the Margins: Essays 1990-2006'' (Salt Books), ''Aljibar I & II'' (poems) and the CD ''Routes, not Roots'' (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar; Ta'wil Productions). Further translations include ''Paul Celan: Selections'' (UC Press) and ''Lightduress'' by Paul Celan which received the 2005 PEN Poetry Translation Award. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited ''Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry''.

He is married to Nicole Peyrafitte. Provided by Wikipedia