Poetry." What distinguishes Pierre Joris's new poems is their arresting mix of passion and intellect. Whether his meditations are prompted by thoughts of Bataille or Blanchot, Celan or Sesses, or by American poets like Robert Duncan or Gustaf Sobin, Joris's is what Pound called 'language charged with meaning,' language that, especially in the moving 'Canto Diurno #1, ' is as luminous as it is compact and terse" -Marjorie Perloff.