With his substantial experience as a translator and the agility gained, in addition to his early start navigating several languages and literatures, Joris in his poetic voice seems ever protean, eluding a fixed style. Rather, the circumstances of the poems elicit their own language and processes according to the particular dialogues that animate them.
Joyfully eccentric Beat poet Nanao Sakaki would be 100 years old this year, and his idealism lives on in the Nanao Global celebration, with new editions in French and Portuguese and a slim new volume published by booksellers called Hi Nanao.
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This weekend in the arts: Sarina Dahlan's "Preset" book launch (and Filipino desserts) at UCSD; Black Arts Festival at The Old Globe; Singing with the Devil at The Shell; "Head Over Heels" at Diversionary Theatre; Poetry, Contrabass and Wendell Kling at The Athenaeum; Adam Deutsch and Manuel Paul López at The Book Catapult; and the North Park Music Fest.