Poetry and translations
Joris has published over 20 books and chapbooks of his own poetry, among these :
- :*Breccia: Selected Poems 1972-1986 (Editions PHI / Station Hill)
- :*Poasis: Selected Poems 1986-1999 (Wesleyan University Press)
- :*h.j.r. (EarthWind Press, Ann Arbor)
- :*Winnetou Old (Meow Press, Buffalo, NY)
- :*Turbulence (St. Lazaire Press, Rhinebeck)
- :*Aljibar (PHI, 2007), a bilingual edition with French translations by Eric Sarner.
- :*Meditations on the Stations of Mansour Al-Hallaj (Anchorite Press)
- :*Aljibar II (PHI, 2008), again a bilingual edition with French translations by Eric Sarner.
He has equally written and published many essays, introductions etc:
- :*A Nomad Poetics (Wesleyan University Press) 2003.
- :*Justifying the Margins: Essays 1990-2006 (Salt Publishing) 2009.
Joris has also published a range of translations, both into English & into French, the most recent being :
- :*4x1: Translations of Tristan Tzara, Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey and Habib Tengour (Inconundrum Press)
- :*Abdelwahab Meddeb : Malady of Islam (Basic Books)
- :*Habib Tengour : Empedokles's Sandal (Duration Press)
- :*Also noteworthy are his translations of Maurice Blanchot's The Unavowable Community and Edmond Jabès's From the Desert to the Book (Station Hill Press).
- :*As well as his numerous translations from English into French: Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues, but also Carl Solomon, Gregory Corso, Pete Townshend, Julian Beck and Sam Shepard.
Miscellaneous:
- :*In 2007 his CD Routes, Not Roots appeared, with Munir Beken (oud), Michael Bisio (bass), Ben Chadabe (percussion) & Mitch Elrod (guitar).
Celan translations
Joris has translated three acclaimed works of poetry by Paul Celan into English (published by
Green Integer and
Sun&Moon Press); and most recently a "Selected" edition of Celan :
- Paul Celan : Selections (University of California Press);
- Lightduress (received the 2005 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation);
- Threadsuns;
- Breathturn (re-issued recently as a Green Integer book)
Collaborations with Jerome Rothenberg
With Jerome Rothenberg he has published a two-volume anthology of 20th Century Avant-Garde writings,
Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, (University of California Press) the first volume of which received the 1996 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award.
Rothenberg's & Joris's previous collaboration,
pppppp: Selected Writings of Kurt Schwitters (Temple University Press, 1993, reissued in 2002 by Exact Change) was awarded the 1994 PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Translation.Rothenberg & Joris recently co-edited & co-translated
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Writings of Pablo Picasso (Exact Change, 2004).
An issue of
Samizdat commemorates the Joris/Rothenberg collaboration with original work and translations by both poets, and essays and poems for and about the poets.