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Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language
and Poetry on the occasion of Celan's acceptance of the Georg
Buchner Prize for literature, "The Meridian" is one of, if not
"the" most important poetological statement of the second half of
the twentieth century. Much more than a personal statement or
occasional piece, it is a meditation on the state of poetry and art
in general and a rigorous attempt to account for what poetry is,
can, and must be after the Holocaust. This definitive
historico-critical edition, available for the first time in
English, presents not only the first drafts, but also a vast array
of notes and preparatory work and a brief essay on Osip Mandelstam,
all of which work to expand the field of reference of Celan's
manifesto and reveal its true scope. Rich commentaries clarify
Celan's notes to authors as diverse as Leibniz, Scheler, Kafka,
Hofmannsthal, Husserl, Pascal, Valery, Heidegger, and others.
Listen to an interview about Celan's "Meridian" with translator
Pierre Joris on the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by
poet and professor Leonard Schwartz. The shows airs on KAOS 89.3FM
Olympia, Washington and is archived online by The University of
Pennsylvania's Pennsound.
As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the
entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. "Poems for
the Millennium" captures the essence of that change, and unlike any
anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at
the very heart of contemporary poetry. International in its
coverage, these volumes bring together the poets and poetry
movements that radically altered the ways that art and language
express the human condition. "Volume 2" offers a dazzling chronicle
of the second "great awakening" of experimental poetry in the
twentieth century. Ranging from the period of World War II through
the cold war to the onset of the twenty-first century, this volume
presents two "galleries" of individual poets such as Holan, Olson,
Rukeyser, Jabes, Celan, Mac Low, Pasolini, Bachmann, Finlay,
Ginsberg, Adonis, Rich, U Tam'si, Baraka, Takahashi, Waldman, and
Bei Dao. There are also samplings of local and international
movements: the Beats, the Vienna Group, the Cobra poets and
artists, the Arabic-language Tammuzi poets, the creators of a new
"Concrete Poetry," the "postwar poets" of Japan, the Italian
Novissimi and Avan-Guardia, the Chinese Misty Poets, and the North
American Language Poets. In addition, an extended section is
devoted to examples of the "art of the manifesto" and two smaller
groupings of traditional "oral poets" and of experimenters with
machine art and cyberpoetics. Poet-editors Jerome Rothenberg and
Pierre Joris provide informative and irreverent commentaries
throughout. They challenge old truths and propose alternative
directions, in the tradition of the manifestos that have marked the
art and poetry of the twentieth century. The result is both an
essential resource for experiencing the full range of contemporary
poetic possibilities and an arresting statement on the future of
poetry in the millennium ahead.
"The word anthology hardly does justice to Rothenberg and Joris's
brilliant reconceptualization of twentieth-century poetry in a
global context. This is that rare book that forces us to rethink
what the poetic is and can be."--Marjorie Perloff
"This book is destined to become a fundamental resource for the
study of twentieth-century literature and culture. Its importance
cannot be overstated."--Charles Bernstein
"A much broader, much more intelligent sweep, this anthology,
than most."--Amiri Baraka
"A riveting literary achievement of phenomenal scope and
generosity. Kudos to Rothenberg and Joris for their passionate,
discerning editorship, spanning cultures, sensibilities, and
languages. This illuminating compendium displays the best of
humanity's bardic inheritance and vision. It should be obligatory
reading for all scholars, students, writers and lovers of poetry.
May the wisdom in these poems benefit us all."--Anne Waldman, Jack
Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, The Naropa Institute
"Looking back from this end of the century we can begin to see
how partial our views of its literary happenings have been: how
time-bound, tongue-bound, often celebrity-bound. In an
accurately-titled "Poems for the Millennium we can at last sense
the scope of the Revolution of the Word that's been in process
since--oh, 1895. There's no other anthology like this one, no other
overview so venturesome."--Hugh Kenner
"This is not like any other anthology, not a collection of
excellences, no absurd imitations of a canon. It's more like a
Handbook of Inventors and Inventions, or of Explorers and
Discoveries, that opens up all sorts of pathways for poetry from
its past and future to a livingpresent. A truly international book
of modern poetry that exceeds its claims to move from the "fin de
siecle to the poets of "Negritude, as it crosses frontiers of
language and culture and genre. This may be the only collection of
modernist poetry that reveals its simultaneous connections to an
archaic and ecological past as well as a technological future, as
it also wipes out rigid distinctions between poets and painters and
sculptors and performers. It is above all a book of possibilities
and invitations.--David Antin
"The intermingling circles of poetries and cultures move outward
to continents & also open up to all times. True cosmopolitanism
loves the specifics of little places and small societies--just the
right gesture, the precise quaver of the voice, the exact variety
of maize. Rothenberg and Joris's anthology gives us, by virtue of
its organic structure and inspired choices, the possibility of a
kind of situated internationalism, what "modernism" half wanted to
become. This is a presentation of a poetics that is already here,
but imperfectly recognized. It is a sourcebook for the
future."--Gary Snyder
Breccia is an inspired grouping of poems from celebrated poet,
translator, anthologist and essayist, Pierre Joris. "[Breccia] is a
showcase for poems from roughly twenty, sometimes rather fugitive,
volumes, written and published during a time when Joris was living
as a kind of postmodern nomad. One of the virtues of this
in-gathering of work is that it makes clear the extent to which a
sense of 'nomadism' - of being intensely in a place because one
knows one has already left it - marks Joris' poetry.... The sense
of immediacy in his work is striking. But the images of weather and
shifting light and shade that give so many poems their climate of
feeling, always play against a complex flow of conceptual activity
and the possibility, but only the possibility, of archetypal
permanence..." - Don Byrd
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Breathturn (Paperback)
Paul Celan; Translated by Pierre Joris
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"Paul Celan is one of the essential poets--not just of the
twentieth century, but of all time. Pierre Joris's selections from
the remarkable, heart-shattering work provide what is surely the
best one-volume introduction to Celan ever published in
English."--Paul Auster"No twentieth-century poet pierces the heart
of language with such an exquisite blade as Paul Celan. With Pierre
Joris & company's translations of key poems, poetics, letters,
and exemplary commentary, it is as if we are reading Celan for the
last time, once again."--Charles Bernstein, author of "With
Strings"Joris has dwelled during the better part of his life in
Celan's words and silences and, as his brilliant introduction
demonstrates, he has journeyed through the work's intricacies like
very few others."--Michael Palmer, author of "The Promises of
Glass"A beautiful--and necessary--book. Celan's charred radiance
shines through every page."--Richard Sieburth, translator of "Hymns
and Fragments
"The days of anything static--form, content, state--are over,"
declares poet and translator Pierre Joris in A Nomad Poetics, his
first collection of critical essays. Joris maps the success and
limitations of contemporary avant-garde poetics, from Tristan Tzara
to the most contemporary American experimental poetry, an
investigation that leads him to envision a "nomadic poetics" as a
strategy for new poetic work, for translation and, fundamentally,
for an ethics of early 21st century life. Extending concepts and
concerns voiced by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Nomad
Poetics is a daring first step in deploying the method of the
rhizome, one grounded in Paul Celan's insight that "Reality is not.
It has to be searched for and won." With articulate immediacy,
Joris's essays announce a metamorphosis of language-based art, much
needed if poetry is to be of essential use in shaping the world to
come.
In this fourth volume of the landmark "Poems for the Millennium"
series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive
anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the
region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of
Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a
section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture
of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and
fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and
rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of
post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a
range of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoenician, Jewish,
Roman, Vandal, Arab, Ottoman, and French. Though concentrating on
oral and written poetry and narratives, the book also draws on
historical and geographical treatises, philosophical and esoteric
traditions, song lyrics, and current prose experiments. These
selections are arranged in five chronological "diwans" or chapters,
which are interrupted by a series of "books" that supply extra
detail, giving context or covering specific cultural areas in
concentrated fashion. The selections are contextualized by a
general introduction that situates the importance of this
little-known culture area and individual commentaries for nearly
each author.
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Poasis (Paperback)
Pierre Joris
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Pierre Joris's poems are characterized by an arresting mix of
passion and intellect, by what Pound called "language charged with
meaning." For Joris, a language is always a second language, and
his poetry takes as its main concern the question of marginality
and exile. He is unique in being an American poet comfortable in
three languages, and his work is filled with a dynamic language
play, cross-linguistic puns, and themes of speculation on language,
translation, and nomadism. Poasis, Joris's first major publication
in the United States, highlights his work since the mid-1980s.
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