{"product_id":"poasis-ii-pierre-joris-9780819501950","title":"Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000-2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelections of Pierre Joris's best work from this past quarter-century of writings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoasis II\u003c\/i\u003e gathers Joris's major poetic works from 2000 to 2024. These nomadically shape-shifting poems range widely across times, places, and cultures, addressing, for example, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster (in a quasi-opera libretto), the meditations of tenth-century revolutionary poet, sufi teacher, and thinker Mansur al-Hallaj, an homage to his old friend and collaborator Jerome Rothenberg (1931-2024), a list poem celebrating Herman Melville's 200 birthday, and extracts from his \u003ci\u003eBook of Cormorant\u003c\/i\u003e. These sequences are interspersed with shorter works, such as poems addressing Paul Celan upon completing translations of that poet's oeuvre, Dante's expulsion from Florence, and more. As he says in the poem \"The Poet's Job,\" \"pick up everything that shines \/ discard the gold \/ keep the light.\" Or, as Randall Horton suggests, these poems \"are inter-cont(in)ental as sound and symbol weaves in and out of cultures, traditions--they critique, inform--teach in a multiverse of languages--they love. The beauty, as with all of Joris's literary work, is when language is allowed to be nomadic and unbound.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[sample poem]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOutside: \u003cbr\u003e sun caught\u003cbr\u003e in bare tree branches, \u003cbr\u003e cradled\u003cbr\u003eInside: \u003cbr\u003e me caught\u003cbr\u003e in shelter in place, \u003cbr\u003e cradled too\u003cbr\u003ep.s. We shall both\u003cbr\u003e rise again\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cbr\u003e4\/1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese buds on the branches\u003cbr\u003ehere this year too\u003cbr\u003etheir steadfastness . my surprise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pierre Joris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819501956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819501950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Pierre Joris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46795537416447,"sku":"9780819501950","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e4dd5240-a72e-4c5d-9f93-6956a5cee164.jpg?v=1744947911","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poasis-ii-pierre-joris-9780819501950","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}