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Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000-2024

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內容簡介 Selections of Pierre Joris's best work from this past quarter-century of writingsPoasis 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 love. The beauty, as with all of Joris's literary work, is when language is allowed to be nomadic and unbound." Published with the support of Kultur lx - Arts Council Luxembourg. [sample poem]Outside: sun caught in bare tree branches, cradledInside: me caught in shelter in place, cradled toop.s. We shall both rise again-4 1These buds on the brancheshere this year tootheir steadfastness . my surprise

作者介紹

作者介紹 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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