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Pierre Joris
Pierre Joris was born in Luxembourg. He has lived in the USA, the UK, North Africa and France, and until his retirement taught poetry and theory at New York University, Albany.
He has published some 50 books of poems, essays, proses & translations, most recently the play The Agony of I.B. (PHI, 2016), An American Suite (inpatient press 2016), Barzakh: Poems 2000-2012 (Black Widow Press 2014) & Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan (FSG 2014).
Other recent books include The University of California Book of North African Literature (Volume 4 in the Poems for the Millennium series), co-edited with Habib Tengour, and Cartographies of the In-between: The Poetry & Poetics of Pierre Joris, edited by Peter Cockelbergh, both of which came out in 2012.
He lives in Sorrentinostan, a.k.a. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multimedia performance artist and writer Nicole Peyrafitte.
For more, go to Pierre Joris's website here
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 52 - New Fiction (2015)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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