Interviews – Nicole Peyrafitte

*From “Carnet 2,” Nicole Peyrafitte, Redfoxpress (Ireland), August 2018*

The summer is winding down & we sure had a busy & productive one (see details below).
We are looking forward to reconnect with you all & we have events & books coming out !
Meanwhile wishing you a beautiful fall.
Nicole & Pierre

EVENTS:

SEPTEMBER:
Pierre Joris
Tuesday, September 11 | 7:30 pm-8:45 pm
Not Invisible Today: Winners of PEN Translation Prizes
WORD Bookstore, 126 Franklin St. Brooklyn, NY 11222
Meet the translators behind prize-winning translations. Sponsored by PEN America’s Translation Committee and moderated by Committee member Jonathan Cohen, this program showcases three translators talking about translation and reading from their works. We will hear from Pierre Joris, 2005 Poetry in Translation Award winner for Lightduress (Paul Celan); Tess Lewis, 2017 PEN Translation Prize winner for her translation from German of Angel of Oblivion (Maja Haderlap); and Sandra Smith, 2007 PEN Translation Prize winner for Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky).

Nicole Peyrafitte
Friday, September 21 5-7pm
Book signing CARNET 2 (Redfoxpress, Ireland)
NY Art Book Fair @ MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
also available online / en vente ici

Pierre Joris
Thursday, September 20 | 7:30 pm
With Pierre’s Words
UAlbany Performing Arts Center, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222
Pierre & the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company perform ”With Pierre’s Words” with music composed by Joel Chadabi, as part of the College of Arts and Sciences 25th anniversary celebration.

Pierre Joris
Sunday, September 30 | 7-9 pm
Reading for International Translation Day
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St NYC 10003
Pierre Joris reads extracts from his translation of Safaa Fathy’s “Revolution goes through Walls”(SplitlevelTexts 2018).

OCTOBER:
Pierre Joris & Richard Sieburth
Monday, October 1, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
The Imagination of Henri Michaux
Albertine books tore, 972 5th Ave, New York, NY 10075
Join Richard Sieburth & Pierre Joris as they discuss Sieburth‘s new translation of Henri Michaux’s “A Certain Plume” (NYRB).

Pierre Joris
Thursday, October 4 – Friday, October 5
Symposium on “Ethnopoetics”
UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
Details to be announced.

Joris/Peyrafitte & …
Saturday, October 20 4pm
Poetry & music in tribute to Gerrit Lansing
The Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston, NY 12401
with Michael Bisio, bass
Don Byrd, Pierre Joris, Robert Kelly, Chuck Stein, George Quasha, Tamas Panitz, T. Urayoan Noel

NOVEMBER:
Nicole Peyrafitte
Wednesday, November 14 8pm
Trickster Feminism with Anne Waldman & Friends
The Poetry Project, New York
This event will highlight Anne Waldman’s new book Trickster Feminism, Penguin, 2018. With musicians, vocalists: Fast Speaking Music (Devin Brahja Waldman and Ambrose Bye) with special guests: Melanie Dyer, Janice Lowe, Thurston Moore, and the premiere of a short video “Crepuscular” by No Land, 2018.

NEW PUBLICATIONS:

Nicole Peyrafitte:
LANDSC0PE, Éditions Plaine Page, June 2018
U.S book release TBA / disponible chez votre libraire et/ou en vente ici
CARNET 2, an artist book by Redfoxpress, Ireland, August 2018.
also available online / en vente ici

Pierre Joris:
Stations d’al-Hallaj, translated by Habib Tengour, Apic Editions, Algiers, 2018
Safaa Fathy, Revolution Goes Through Walls, translated by Pierre Joris with Safaa Fathy, SplitLevel, 2018

Forthcoming later this year:
Adonis & Pierre Joris: Conversations in the Pyrenees, Contra Mundum Press, 2018
Paul Celan, Microliths (Posthumous prose) translated by Pierre Joris, attem-verlag, 2018

DOCUMENTATION OF SUMMER
click for full photo & more videos gallery

Video sample:

Pierre Joris at Black Mountain Ghost Jam May 2018.
Pierre Joris, with Nicole Peyrafitte and Camilla Nelson. Filmed by Penny Hallas with iphone-recorded soundtrack by Sarah Rhys. Projected films by Penny Hallas, projected still images arranged by Allen Fisher. Recorded sounds by Lyndon Davies.