A Nomad Poetics

by Joris, Pierre

• ISBN13: 9780819566461
• ISBN10: 0819566462
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-05
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Summary

"The days of anything static--form, content, state--are over," declares poet and translator Pierre Joris in A Nomad Poetics, his first collection of critical essays. Joris maps the success and limitations of contemporary avant-garde poetics, from Tristan Tzara to the most contemporary American experimental poetry, an investigation that leads him to envision a "nomadic poetics" as a strategy for new poetic work, for translation and, fundamentally, for an ethics of early 21st century life. Extending concepts and concerns voiced by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Nomad Poetics is a daring first step in deploying the method of the rhizome, one grounded in Paul Celan's insight that "Reality is not. It has to be searched for and won." With articulate immediacy, Joris's essays announce a metamorphosis of language-based art, much needed if poetry is to be of essential use in shaping the world to come.

Author Biography

PIERRE JORIS is the author of 22 books of poetry, most recently Poasis (Wesleyan, 2001) and co-editor of Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry. He has published English translations of Celan, Tzara, Rilke and Blanchot, among others. He is Professor of English at SUNY, Albany.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Nomad Century Ahead (1998)	p. 3
This Yucca-Age: Statement for Tyuonyi (1987)	p. 9
Re "The Politics of Poetic Form" (1991)	p. 11
St/range: An uncertain range (1999)	p. 17
Notes toward a Nomadic Poetics (1996-2002)	p. 25
A Glottal Choice (1999)	p. 59
The Case of the Missing "M" (1990)	p. 63
From the Summer 1995 Notebooks	p. 72
Collage & Post-Collage: In Honor of Eric Mottram (1997)	p. 83
Bernstein's Rough Trades (1993)	p. 94
Community of Translation & Translation of Community in Robin Blaser (1997)	p. 102
Introduction to 4 x 1 (2001)	p. 110
The Nomadism of Pablo Picasso (2001)	p. 115
Samizdat Interview (2000)	p. 121
Open Letter in Response to Adrian Clarke's (2001)	p. 135
Sources and Resources	p. 141
Index	p. 149
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