Pierre Joris

De **Pierre Joris**, gebuer de 14. Juli 1946 zu Stroossbuerg an zu Ettelbréck opgewuess, a gestuerwen de 27. Februar 2025 zu Brooklyn an den USA, war e Schrëftsteller, Iwwersetzer a Kritiker. Mat 19 Joer huet hie Lëtzebuerg verlooss.

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

Hien huet haaptsächlech Lyrik, mä och Essaien a Lauschterspiller geschriwwen.

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)

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