Tag Archives: Pierre Joris

Videos by Skylight Authors (Part I)

Here is a smattering of reading and interview videos from our literary authors.  Happy browsing…. Iain Sinclair Rikki Ducornet Will Alexander Pierre Joris Garry Craig Powell Basil King Diana Durham Richard Froude Margaret Randall Hugh Fox Dee Sunshine     … Continue reading

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Breccia: Selected Poems 1972-86 by Pierre Joris

It is from our bodies’s furrows that the first permission arises. The drag of it. The pull of the pen across the magic writing pad. It is the necessary violence we all call life Breccia is an inspired grouping of … Continue reading

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Pierre Joris on Skylight Press

Born in 1946 in Strasbourg, France, raised in Luxembourg, Pierre Joris has moved between the US, Europe & North Africa for 50 years, publishing close to 50 books of poetry & essays, translations & anthologies. In 1992 he returned to … Continue reading

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Basil’s Arc: The Paintings and Poetics of Basil King (September 22, 2012)

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The Future of Antithologies and the Joris Example

With poetry anthologies always determined by geography, genre, genus, gender, or group dynamics, it’s a joy to come across one that presents an odd assemblage of writers and unseen connections.  In 4 X 1 Pierre Joris, a Luxembourgian now residing … Continue reading

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