A reading from The Stations of Mansur Al-Hallaj & other poems with poet and translator Pierre Joris
Department: Intl. Center for Writing and Trans.
Date and Time: October 22, 2009 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1010
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Pierre Joris is a poet, translator, essayist & anthologist who left Luxembourg at 19 and has since lived in France, England, Algeria & the United States. He has published over forty books, most recently Justifying the Margins: Essays 1990-2006 and Aljibar II (poems, a bilingual edition with French translations by Eric Sarner). Other recent publications include the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; & Mitch Elrod, guitar), Aljibar I and Meditations on the Stations of Mansour Al-Hallaj 1-21. Recent translations include Paul Celan: Selections, and Lightduress by Paul Celan, which received the 2005 PEN Poetry Translation Award. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited the award-winning anthologies Poems for the Millennium (volumes I & II) and most recently, Pablo Picasso, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems. He is Professor for poetry and poetics at the University of Albany, State University of New York.
Joris' website: http://pierrejoris.com/home.html
Joris' Nomadics blog: http://pierrejoris.com/blog/
Moderated by Carrie Noland
Director, Humanities-Arts Major
Professor, French and Comparative Literature
University of California, Irvine
Presented by the Humanities and Arts major. Sponsored by the International Center for Writing and Translation in the School of Humanities. For more information, please write icwt@uci.edu or call (949) 824-1948.