The Poetry Project at
St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St., New York, NY 10003
presents
Wednesday, December 14
8:00pm
Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte with Diallo House on acoustic bass
Rain Taxi praised Pierre Joris' collection, Poasis: Selected Poems
1986-1999, for "its physical, philosophical delight in words and
their reverberations." Since then he has published two chapbooks of
poetry: Permanent Diaspora and The Rothenberg Variations. In 2003
Wesleyan brought out his collection of essays A Nomad Poetics. Recent
translations include 4x1: Work by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke,
Jean-Pierre Duprey & Habib Tengour (Inconundrum Press, 2002), Paul
Celan: Selections (University of California Press, 2005), and
Lightduress by Paul Celan (Green Integer, 2004), which won the 2005
PEN Award for Translation. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited the
award-winning anthologies Poems for the Millennium and, most
recently from Exact Change, Pablo Picasso, The Burial of the Count of
Orgaz & Other Poems. During the fall of 2005 he was in Morocco,
working on translations of Maghrebian poets. Visit Pierre Joris's
website at www.albany.edu/~joris/.
Multimedia performance artist Nicole Peyrafitte was born in Luchon
(French Pyrenees). As an autodidact, she considers each step of her
work an attempt to fulfill her compulsion to learn through a process
of immersion that generates performances incorporating voice /
paintings / videos / writing & often cooking. Peyrafitte performs
locally, nationally and in Europe. Among other venues, she has
performed in The Emerson Gallery in Berlin (Germany), The Walker Art
Center in Minneapolis, SUNY Buffalo, The University of Rochester,
Festival Occitania Toulouse, France. Nicole Peyrafitte was voted Best
Performance Artist of the Capital Region 2005 for her multimedia
performance The Bi-Continental Chowder. Anne Waldman has described
her work as "both stunningly beautiful and powerfully unnerving...
[Peyrafitte] is the chthonic goddess come to tempt you, scare you,
transform you. She is in the poetic lineage of Greek tragedy, Café
Voltaire antics, of dada and surrealist play but with a post-modern,
hip sensibility. I am transfixed when she's on stage." For more info:
www.nicolepeyrafitte.com
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for those interested in French Chansons:
(the night before the Poetry gig):
Tuesday Dec 13 th from 7:30-11PM,
Nicole Peyrafitte will be singing a program of Mostly French Songs
with Bassist Michael Bisio. For the jazz aficionados Bisio has
played and/or recorded with Barbara Donald, Wayne Horvitz, Bob Nell,
Andrew Hill, Sonny Simmons, John Tchicai, Bern Nix, Jim Nolet, Joe
McPhee, Vinny Golia, Van Manakas, Greg Bendian, Carter Jefferson,
Charles Gayle, and Marilyn Crispell. He brings a unique touch to the
French Cabaret repertoire.
They will be at:
The Flea Market Café & Restaurant
131 Ave. A (Tompkins Square) NYC
This is a good traditional French Bistro
Price Range: Moderate
The Soupe à l'oignon is delicious ( almost as good as mine!)
The steak frites genuine
& do not miss the Mousse au Chocolat 10/10
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The poet: always in partibus infidelium — Paul Celan
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Pierre Joris
244 Elm Street
Albany NY 12202
h: 518 426 0433
c: 518 225 7123
o: 518 442 40 85
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.albany.edu/~joris/
blog:http://pjoris.blogspot.com/
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