#pierre joris

[majestativa]

De-eternalizing you.

PAUL CELAN — A Sulfur Anthology [Ed. Clayton Eshleman], transl. by Pierre Joris, (2016)

[garadinervi]

Poems for the Millennium, Volume One: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry: From Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude, Edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1995

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Paul Celan tr. by Pierre Joris

[arablit]

Pierre Joris (1946-2025): Seven Minutes on Translation

FEBRUARY 27, 2025 — The prolific poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist Pierre Joris died today after a long battle with cancer. Back in 2011, he wrote us these “Seven Minutes on Translation.” SEVEN MINUTES ON TRANSLATION By Pierre Joris The text that opens my recent volume of poems, Aljibar II, starts with a line that came to me unbidden, out of the blue. It reads: “My father was a healer…

Pierre Joris (1946-2025): Seven Minutes on Translation

[manwalksintobar]

Great, Glowing Vault // Paul Celan

Great, glowing vault with the outward- and away- burrowing black-constellation swarm:

into the silicified forehead of a ram I burn this image, between the horns, therein, in the singing of the coils, the marrow of the curdled heartseas swells.

What doesn't he butt against?

The world is gone, I have to carry you.

(translated from the German by Pierre Joris)

[minoracts]

Paul Celan, from Mohn und Gedächtnis / Poppy and Memory (1952), trans. Pierre Joris in Memory Rose into Theshold Speech (2020)

[lifeinpoetry]

who / is invisible enough / to see you?

— Paul Celan, from “[Sight threads, sense threads],” Breathturn into Timestead, tr. Pierre Joris

[ammonitetestpatterns]

paul celan, microliths they are, little stones: posthumous prose, translated by pierre joris, contra mundum press, 2020.