Pierre Joris

De Pierre Joris, gebuer de 14. Juli 1946 zu Stroossbuerg an zu Ettelbréck opgewuess, ass e Schrëftsteller, Iwwersetzer a Kritiker. Mat 19 Joer huet hie Lëtzebuerg verlooss.

Pierre Joris
Gebuer	14. Juli 1946 Stroossbuerg
Nationalitéit	Lëtzebuerg
Educatioun	Dikrecher Kolléisch, Cours supérieurs, Universitéit vu Paräis, Bard College, Universitéit vun Essex, State University of New York
Aktivitéit	Iwwersetzer, Dichter, Essayist, Universitéitsprofesser

Hien huet Medezin studéiert a wunnt, nodeems en eng Zäit a Frankräich, Algerien a Groussbritannien gelieft huet, zu New York vun 1967 bis 1972 an erëm zanter 1987 an de Vereenegte Staaten.

Hie schreift haaptsächlech Lyrik, mä och Essaien a Lauschterspiller.

Mam Jerome Rothenberg huet hien d'Anthologie Poems for the Millenium erausginn. 2005 huet hien de PEN Award for Poetry in Translation fir d'Iwwersetzung vum Paul Celan sengem Gedichtsbichelchen Lichtzwang kritt, dat op Englesch Lightduress heescht.

Fir säi Gesamtwierk ass de Pierre Joris 2020 mam nationale lëtzebuergesche Literaturpräis, dem Batty-Weber-Präis ausgezeechent ginn.

Säi Wierk (Auswiel)

Lyrik

• The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans (avec Nicole Peyrafitte), Editions Simoncini, Luxembourg, 2017.
• Canto Diurno (French Selected; Le castor astral 2017)
• An American Suite, (Inpatient Press, 2016)
• Gulf Od Vraku K Pohromé (Czech translation, Prague, 2016)
• Barzakh (Poems 2000-2012), Black Widow Press, 2014.
• Maquif: Poemas y ensayos (Spanish Selected, La Otra, Mexico D.F., 2014)
• Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj (Chax Press, 2013)
• learn the shadow (unit4art, 2012)
• Canto Diurno #4: The Tang Extending from the Blade (ebook; 2010)
• Aljibar & Aljibar II (Editions PHI, 2007, 2008)
• Routes, not Roots (Audio CD, 2007)
• Meditations on the Stations of Mansur Al-Hallaj  1-20 (Chax Press, 2006)
• The Rothenberg Variations (2004)
• Fin de siècle-Phantombild; Ausgewählte Gedichte 1974-2000 (PHI, 2004)
• Permanent Diaspora (2003)
• Poasis: Selected Poems 1986–1999 (Wesleyan University Press, 2001)
• h.j.r. (Otherwind Press 1999)
• out/takes (1999)
• La dernière traversée de la manche (PHI, 1995)
• Winnetou Old (Meow Press,1994)
• Turbulence (St. Lazaire Press, 1991)
• The Irritation Ditch (1991)
• Janus (St. Lazaire Press,1988)
• Breccia: Selected Poems 1972–1986 (PHI, 1987)
• Net/Work (1983)
• The Book of Luap Nalec (1982)
• Tracing (1982)
• Hearth-Work (1977)
• Antlers I-XI (1975)
• A Single-minded Bestiary (1974; online reissue 2015)
• The Fifth Season (1972)

Essaien

• A Nomad Poetics (Wesleyan University Press) 2003.
• Justifying the Margins: Essays 1990-2006 (Salt Publishing) 2009.
• Arabia (Not So) Deserta (Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture)Spuyten Duyvil 2019.
• Adonis & Pierre Joris: Conversations in the Pyrenees, CMP 2019

Als Editeur

• A City Full of Voices: Essays on Robert Kelly, ed. by Pierre Joris with Peter Cockelbergh & Joel Newberger (Contra Mundum Press 2020)
• A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly, ed. by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh (Contra Mundum Press 2013)
• Claude Pélieu: La Crevaille (Posthumous Writings of Claude Pélieu, transcribed & edited by Pierre Joris) Ressacs, Editions de l'Arganier, Paris. (2008)
• Paul Celan : Selections, Poets for the Millennium series, University of California Press 2005.
• The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and other Writings of Pablo Picasso (with Jerome Rothenberg), Exact Change, Boston, 2004.
• pppppp : The Selected Writings of Kurt Schwitters  (with Jerome Rothenberg), Temple University Press, 1993. Re-issued by Exact Change in 2002.
• Joy! Praise! A Festschrift for Jerome Rothenberg on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, Ta'wil Books & Documents, Encinitas, 1991.

Theater

• The Agony of I.B. (opgefouert vum National Theater Letzeburg 2016)
• The Gulf (Between You & Me) (opgefouert vum National Theater Letzeburg 2016)

Anthologien

• The University of California Book of North African Literature (vol. 4 in the Poems for the Millennium series), coedited with Habib Tengour (UCP, November 2012).
• Poems for the Millennium (2 volumes: 1995 & 1998)
• Poésie Internationale : Anthologie  (with Jean Portante, 1987)
• Matières d'Angleterre (with Paul Buck, 1984)

Iwwersetzungen

Englesch

• Revolution goes through Walls, by Safaa Fathy (2018)
• Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected later Poetry of Paul Celan (2013)
• Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader edited & translated by P.J. (2012)
• Paul Celan. The Meridian. Final Version—Drafts—Materials. (Stanford University Press, 2011)
• Jukebox hydrogène de Allen Ginsberg (avec Nicole Peyrafitte 2008)
• Paul Celan: Selections (2005)
• Lightduress by Paul Celan (2005)
• The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and other Writings of Pablo Picasso (2004)
• The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb (2003)
• 4X1: Works by Rilke, Tzara, Duprey & Tengour translated by Pierre Joris (2002)
• Threadsuns by Paul Celan (2000)
• Crystals to Aden by Michel Bulteau (2000)
• The Sandals of Empedocles by Habib Tengour (1999)
• Breathturn by Paul Celan (1995)
• pppppp: The Selected Writings of Kurt Schwitters (1993)
• From the Desert to the Book, Interviews with Edmond Jabès (1989)
• The Unavowable Community by Maurice Blanchot (1988)

Franséisch

• Hydrogen Jukebox (avec Nicole peyrafitte) vum Allen Ginsberg
• Lune faucon de Sam Shepard (1987)
• Horse’s Neck de Pete Townshend (1986)
• Motel Chronicles de Sam Shepard (1985)
• Sentiments éligiaques américains de Gregory Corso (1977)
• Mexico City Blues de Jack Kerouac (1977)
• Temporal Flight by Jean-Pierre Duprey (1976)
• Chants de la Révolution de Julian Beck (1975)
• Contretemps à temps de Carl Solomon (1974)

Kuckt och

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Um Spaweck

• Dem Pierre Joris seng Websäit
• Nomadics, säi Blog
• Visittekaart: Pierre Joris, de Jean Portante am Gespréich de 15. Abrëll 2021 um Radio 100,7