Breccia: Selected Poems 1972-1986

Breccia is an inspired grouping of poems from celebrated poet translator anthologist and essayist Pierre Joris. [Breccia] is a showcase for poems from roughly twenty sometimes rather fugitive volumes written and published during a time when Joris was living as a kind of postmodern nomad. One of the virtues of this in-gathering of work is that it makes clear the extent to which a sense of nomadism - of being intensely in a place because one knows one has already left it - marks Joris poetry.... The sense of immediacy in his work is striking. But the images of weather and shifting light and shade that give so many poems their climate of feeling always play against a complex flow of conceptual activity and the possibility but only the possibility of archetypal permanence... - Don Byrd