Pierre Joris

PIERRE JORIS has published over 20 books and chapbooks, as well as several anthologies and many volumes of translation—both into English and into French, including Paul Celan's Breathturn and Maurice Blanchot's The Unavowable Community. He teaches in the Department of English at SUNY Albany and is currently collaborating with Jerome Rothenberg on a two-volume anthology of 20th century avant-garde writing to be published by UCP. A collection of recent poems translated into French by Jean Portante, Nicole Peyrafitte, and the author is entitled La Derniere Traversee de la Manche, published in Luxembourg and Quebec by G-r-a-p-h-i-t-i Editeur.