{"product_id":"poasis-ii-selected-poems-2000-2024-9780819501950","title":"Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000-2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelections of Pierre Joris's best work from this past quarter-century of writings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoasis II\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBook of Cormorant\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[sample poem]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOutside: \u003cbr\u003e sun caught\u003cbr\u003e in bare tree branches, \u003cbr\u003e cradled\u003cbr\u003eInside: \u003cbr\u003e me caught\u003cbr\u003e in shelter in place, \u003cbr\u003e cradled too\u003cbr\u003ep.s. We shall both\u003cbr\u003e rise again\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cbr\u003e4\/1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese buds on the branches\u003cbr\u003ehere this year too\u003cbr\u003etheir steadfastness . my surprise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePIERRE JORIS (1946-2025) was a Luxembourger-American poet, essayist, translator, and editor who has published over 80 books. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eInterglacial Narrows: Poems 2015-2021\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlways the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello\u003c\/i\u003e, both from Contra Mundum Press. He is also a prolific translator, in particular of Paul Celan. He received the 2020 Batty Weber Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Luxembourg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615569215762,"sku":"9780819501950","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_412c982d-0374-4fca-a21b-68912b1f513d.jpg?v=1758103490","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/poasis-ii-selected-poems-2000-2024-9780819501950","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}