Pierre Joris has moved between Europe, the US and North Africa for some 55 years now, publishing as many books of poetry, essays, translations and anthologies — most recently Arabia (not so) Deserta (Essays, Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2019); Conversations in the Pyrenees with Adonis (CMP 2018), and The Book of U (poems, with Nicole Peyrafitte, Editions Simoncini 2017). Forthcoming in 2020 is A City Full of Voices: Essays on the Work of Robert Kelly and Microliths: Posthumous Prose of Paul Celan, (both Contra Mundum Press), and The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan (FSG).