Pierre Joris is a poet, translator, essayist, and anthologist working between Europe, the United States, and North Africa for 55 years, publishing over 80 books of poetry, essays, translations, and anthologies. Most recently, Fox-trails, -tales & -trots, the translations Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan, and A City Full of Voices: Essays on the Work of Robert Kelly and Microliths: Posthumous Prose of Paul Celan, A City Full of Voices: Essays on the Work of Robert Kelly. He lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multimedia praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte.