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A Nomad Poetics: Essays SPO017000 and tricolor (which is aPowerful essays on the state and aims of contemporary poetry. The days of anything static form, content, state are over, declares poet and translator Pierre Joris in A Nomad Poetics, his first collection of critical essays. Joris maps the success and limitations of contemporary avant garde poetics, from Tristan Tzara to the most contemporary American experimental poetry, an investigation that leads him to envision a nomadic poetics as a strategy for