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Poasis II

Name: Poasis II
ISBN: 9780819501967

Selected Poems 2000–2024

Pierre Joris,

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Poasis II

Selected Poems 2000–2024

Pierre Joris,

About this book

Poasis II gathers Joris's major poetic works from 2000 to 2024. These nomadically shape-shifting poems range widely across times, places, and cultures, addressing, for example, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster (in a quasi-opera libretto),the meditations of tenth-century revolutionary poet, sufi teacher, and thinker Mansur al-Hallaj, an homage to his old friend and collaborator Jerome Rothenberg (1931–2024), a list poem celebrating Herman Melville's 200 birthday, and extracts from his Book of Cormorant. These sequences are interspersed with shorter works, such as poems addressing Paul Celan upon completing translations of that poet's oeuvre, Dante's expulsion from Florence, and more. As he says in the poem "The Poet's Job," "pick up everything that shines / discard the gold / keep the light." Or, as Randall Horton suggests, these poems "are inter-cont(in)ental as sound and symbol weaves in and out of cultures, traditions—they critique, inform—teach in a multiverse of languages—they love. The beauty, as with all of Joris's literary work, is when language is allowed to be nomadic and unbound." Published with the support of Kultur lx – Arts Council Luxembourg.

[sample poem]

Outside:
                sun caught
        in bare tree branches,
                        cradled
Inside:
                me caught
        in shelter in place,
                        cradled too
p.s. We shall both
        rise again

–
4/1

These buds on the branches
here this year too
their steadfastness. my surprise

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