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.

As reader and performance artist, Joris's work with performance artist / singer / painter Nicole Peyrafitte includes :

• dePLACEments (premiered from 27 June to 2 July 2005 at Cave Poésie, Toulouse, France);
• Manifesto&a (premiered in Luxembourg, July 1998);
• Riding The Lines, (European Tour summer 1997; New York City performance at the Here Inn, Dec 1997).

Other performances include:

• Pierre's Words (Toward an Opera), a collaboration with composer Joel Chadabe & the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company (Premiered May 3, 1997, The Egg, Albany);
• Frozen Shadows, a dance & reading performance based on Winnetou Old, choreographed by Ellen Sinopoli & danced by the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company (Union College, Schenectady, NY January 21, 1996 "The Egg," Albany, NY, April 12 & 13, 1995);
• This Morning (part of Music Juggle) a multimedia collaboration with composer Xavier Chabot (Premiered at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY February 5, 1997. Chabot presented this work in Japan in late 1997.