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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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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ISBN
9780819501950
Publisert
2025-10-31
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Wesleyan University Press; Wesleyan University Press
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229 mm
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152 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Heftet
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248

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