Overview
Selections of Pierre Joris's best work from this past quarter-century of writings /> />Poasis II gathers Joris's major poetic works from 2000 to 2024. These nomadically shape-shifting poems range widely across times, places, and cultures, addressing, for example, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster (in a quasi-opera libretto),the meditations of tenth-century revolutionary poet, sufi teacher, and thinker Mansur al-Hallaj, an homage to his old friend and collaborator Jerome Rothenberg (1931–2024), a list poem celebrating Herman Melville's 200 birthday, and extracts from his Book of Cormorant. These sequences are interspersed with shorter works, such as poems addressing Paul Celan upon completing translations of that poet's oeuvre, Dante's expulsion from Florence, and more. As he says in the poem ""The Poet's Job,"" ""pick up everything that shines / discard the gold / keep the light."" Or, as Randall Horton suggests, these poems ""are inter-cont(in)ental as sound and symbol weaves in and out of cultures, traditions—they critique, inform—teach in a multiverse of languages—they loveThe beauty, as with all of Joris's literary work, is when language is allowed to be nomadic and unbound."" [sample poem] Outside: sun caught in bare tree branches, cradled Inside: me caught in shelter in place, cradled too p.s. We shall both rise again – 4/1 These buds on the branches here this year too their steadfastness . my surprise
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Author: Pierre Joris
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9780819501950
ISBN 10: 0819501956
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 31 October 2025
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Table of Contents
Table Of Contents from: Permanent Diaspora This afternoon Dante The word, the mawqif Tuesday, may 23rd 2000 EP: heard, not seen # 18 for Gerrit Lansing at 75 from: The Rothenberg Variations VARIATION #1 VARIATION #2 VARIATION #3 VARIATION #6 VARIATION #9 from: learn the shadow R.I.P. for C. L.-S. Sour Birth 07.29.09. Bourg d'Oueil The Gulf (Between You & Me) Rigwreck Interlude: Word Swarm 1 Love at First Sight Interlude: Word Swarm 2 Dis/aster — Oildreck from: Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj 1. manners (adab) 2. awe (rahab) 3. fatigue (nasab) 4. serach (talab) 5. wonder ('ajab) 8. avidity (sharah) 9. probity (nazah) 10. sincerity (sidq) 11. comradeship (rifq) 12. emancipation (litq) 16. witnessing (shuhud) 17. existence (wujud) 19. labor (kada) 26. Presence (hudur) 32. perplexity (tahayyur) 34. patience (tasabbur) 40. beginning (bidaya) from: Barzakh Canto Diurno 2: A / To Jack Kerouac : Ode Bilingue Three Little Proses Out Between 9/11/01 [Introït to my Purgatory] L'Heure Bleue Poem upon returning to these States after a 6-months absence from: An Alif Baa preamble to an alphabet [alif] [ba] A poem in noon The Rheumy Eye of Night Another end to writing/reading 18 ""But the ear"" ""Along the coast of Sri Lanka fish feed"" The Sanctuary of Hands from The Fez Journals Bab Bou Jeloud In Larache ""What if the birds were the shadows"" Canto Diurno 5 1. At the Mondrian 2. Lunch at La Grille (1.30 p.m. Blurb for Hütte Reading Edmond Jabès Letter to Steichen's Ed ""I like the imp"" Homage to Badia Masabni from: The Book of U /Le livre des cormorans TWO FOR THE CORMORANTS In the dog days of summer, 3 of 'em: After Basho ""summer's so"" ""The one & only"" Last cor poem from: Fox-trails, -tails, & -trots A Poem in Luxembourgish on New York from: Interglacial Narrows ELEGY FOR ANSELM HOLLO Avicenna to Break Up Sudanese Saying Marasma redirects ""our unconscious is always"" Haiku for the End of the World The Poet's Job Triggernometry of the Trinity A Late Antler for Dawn Clements The Art of the Fugue, no Purgatory is Shipping Out at 1:25 p.m. on Herman Melville's 200 birthday A three-minute composition à la mode Dalachinsky to celebrate Steve ""Earlier today I saw"" A Poem or something, a gift, a song, for Paul Celan at 100 from Up to & Including the Virus: Diaretics 2020-2021 Uncollected: # ?. via Dante, Purgatory from An AlifBa: T Peace Flag
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""This generous collection gives one a sense of eavesdropping on a poet at work. But as the poet is Pierre Joris, we are immersed in a lifetime of poetry read, written, memorized, and thought through from different languages, times, and places. Al-Hallaj, Dante, Mallarme, Pound, Olson, Celan, Jerome Rothenberg, Gerrit Lansing, Habib Tengour--all are companions along the way. Whether outraged over the US war against Iraq or through tender memory in the extraordinary bilingual Ode to Jack Kerouac, these meditations overheard are profound demonstrations of language at work.""--Ammiel Alcalay, author of CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books ""Pierre Joris's work is marked by a rare virtue for an American poet: courageousness. Where the courage is not just what is said but what is refused: the sanctity of the fixed place, nation or ideal, banner or standard. It's not just the tyranny of monolingualism that Joris's verse contests, it's the tyranny of all forms of monomania: single-mindedness in perspective, style, politics, form, language, identity, desire.""--Charles Bernstein, author of The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies
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PIERRE JORIS (1946-2025) was a Luxembourger-American poet, essayist, translator, and editor who has published over 80 books. His most recent books include Interglacial Narrows: Poems 2015-2021 and Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. He is also a prolific translator, in particular of Paul Celan. He received the 2020 Batty Weber Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Luxembourg.
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