Pierre Joris has moved between Europe, the US & North Africa for some fifty years now, publishing as many books of poetry, essays, translations, and anthologies—most recently, The Book of U /Le livre des cormorans (with Nicole Peyrafitte); The Agony of I.B. (a play); An American Suite (early poems); Barzakh: Poems 2000–2012; and Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan. When not on the road, he lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multi-media praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte.