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Pierre Joris


Born
in Strasbourg, France
July 14, 1946

Died
February 27, 2025

Website

Genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences
Celan, Olson, Duncan, Kerouac, Tzara, Bachmann, Benn, Breton


Pierre Joris was a Luxembourgish-American poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist. He moved between Europe, North Africa, and the United States for fifty-five years, publishing over eighty books of poetry, essays, translations and anthologies — most recently Interglacial Narrows (Poems 2015–2021) and Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Posthumous prose, from CMP) and The Collected Earlier Poetry (FSG). In 2019 Spuyten Duyvil Press published Arabia (not so) Deserta (essays on Maghrebi and Mashreqi literature and culture). His other recent books include: A City Full of Vo ...more

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A Nomad Poetics
4.30 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Poems for the Millennium, V...
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4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Poasis: Selected Poems, 198...
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4X1: Works by Tristan Tzara...
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Justifying the Margins
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Breccia: selected poems 197...
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
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A Book of Foxes
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Turbulence
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1991
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Fresh from the Fountain
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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