15 Years in Exile, Volume 16, Number 1 (Exile Editions Volume 1)

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SEAMUS HEANEY - Funeral Rites

Seamus Heaney of Ireland has published, among many books,Death of a Naturalist, Door into the Dark, Wintering out, North, Field Work, Station Island, Sweeney Astray, The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things. The sequence Turas appeared in Exile in 1973 and is not collected elsewhere.

 

MERCE RODOREDA - The Salamander

Merce Rodoreda of Spain is the finest of the contemporary Catalan novelists. Her best know book, La Placa del Diamon, has been translated into more than a half-dozen languages, and it appeared in English as The Pigeon Girl. David H. Rosenthal, himself a poet, translated a collection of her work: My Christina and Other Stories. He is also the author of Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955 -1965.

 

LEONARD COHEN - Death of a Lady’s Man

Leonard Cohen of Canada is a novelist, poet and songwriter who has published Let Us Compare Mythologies, The Spice Box Of The Earth, The Energy of Slaves, Book of Mercy, and Death of a Lady’s Man. A very substantial section of Death of a Lady’s Man First appeared in Exile.

 

 MAVIS GALLANT - Mau to Lew: The Maurice Ravel Lewis Carroll Friendship

Mavis Gallant of Canada, who has lived in Paris since the early 1950’s, has written, among others: My Heart Is Broken, The Pegnitz Junction, From The Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Overhead in a Ballon: Stories of Paris, Paris Notebooks: Essays and Reviews, and In Transit, Mau To Lew:. The Maurice Ravel Lewis Carroll Friendship appeared in Exile in 1980 and is not collected elsewhere.

 

LUDWIG ZELLOR - Lovers

Ludwig Zellor of Canada has published more than a dozen books: Mirage’s, Dream Woman, Alphacollage, In The Country Of Antipodes, 50 Collages, The Marble Head and Other Poems, The Ghost’s Tattoos, and To Saw the Beloved to Pieces Only When Necessary, published by Exile Editions.

 

VICTOR-LEVY BEAULIEU - A Quebecois Dream

Victor-Levy Beaulieu of Canada, one of the most prolific prose writers in Quebec, is the author of several novels published by Exile Editions: Jos Connaissant, A Quebecois Dream, Satan Belhumeur, and Steven Le Herault.

 

DIANE KEATING - The Dead Sky Letters

Diane Keating of Canada has published three books of poetry, In Dark Places, No Birds or Flowers, and The Optic Heart, and a novel, The Crying Out.

 

ITALO CALVINO - If on a Winter’s Night A Traveler

Italo Calvino of Italy was the author of many prose works: The Watcher, Invisible Cities, to zero, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, If on aWinter’s Night a Traveler, The Path to The Nest of Spiders.

 

MICHEL DEGUY - Three Poems

Michel Deguy of France, central to that country’s contemporary poetry, has published some twenty books, among them: Fragment du cadastre, Biefs, Oui dire, Actes, Poemes 1960 -1970, Relieffs and Jumelages suivi de Made in USA. He is also

the editor of the journal, Po&sie.

 

ROBERT MARKLE - Blazing Figures

Robert Markle of Canada was a distinguished painter, sculptor, and maker of Idiosyncratic whirley gigs. He was also a man of letters and journalist. He died in 1990.

 

TIMOHTY FINDLEY - The Wars

Timothy Findley of Canada, one of the country’s finest novelists, has published with Exile from the Beginning. His novels include: The Last of the Crazy People, The Wars, Famous Last Words, Dinner Along the Amazon, Not Wanted on the Voyage, and Stones. His most recent book is Inside Memory.

 

JOHN MONTAGUE - The Cave of Night

John Montague of Ireland, one of two contributing editors to Exile, has published much of his verse in the quarterly. Books by John Montague that have been published by Exile Editions are: The Dead Kingdom, Selected Poems, Mount Eagle, and The Love Poems: John Montague.

 

MARIE-CLARIE BLAIS - Deaf To The City

Marie-Claire Blais of Canada has appeared often in Exile, starting with Volume 1 Number 1. Her novels include: Mad Shadows, a Season in the Life of Emmanuel, The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange, St Lawrence Blues, Deaf to the City, Anna and Nights in the Underground.

 

DAVID ANNESLEY - Francois Mauriac

David Annesley of Canada, was born in Ireland and came to Toronto in 1963. He began drawing for the book pages of the now defunct Toronto Telegram in 1968. His work then appeared in The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly. He died young by drowning in 1977. Exile Editions published The Annesley Drawings in 1980.

 

RENE LAGORRE - "Z"

Rene Lagorre of France, a painter, has exhibited in Paris and Washington.

 

S.W. HAYTER - Action In New Fields

S.W. Hayter of England settled in Paris in 1926 and opened a studio at rue Campagne-Premiere 17 a year later. After 1933, his studio was known as Atelier 17, where he developed revolutionary graphic techniques. In 1940 he went to the United States and opened Atelier 17 in New York, but in 1950 he returned to Paris. His students came from all over the world to Atelier 17, presently on rue Didot. He was featured in Exile Vol.8, Number 3 & 4, and he was always an advocate for Exile in Europe. He died in 1988.

 

JOHN MEREDITH - Atlantis

John Meredith of Canada is a painter whose work is in many private collections and in such museums as the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, The Vancouver Art Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery of Canada.

 

BARRY CALLAGHAN - Hogg

Barry Callaghan of Canada, poet, prose writer, translator, is the author of: The Hogg Poems and Drawings, The Black Queen Stories, As Close as We Came, Stone Blind Love, and The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings.

 

DAVID ANNESLEY - Joyce Carol Oates

 

JOHN MEREDITH - "Untitled"

 

RENE LAGORRE - "Z"

 

BARRY CALLAGHAN - The Hogg poems: Judas Priest

 

YANNIS RITSOS - Helen

Yannis Ritsos of Greece was the most prolific of modern Greek poets. He wrote over twenty-five books of poetry. He was translated widely on the continent and Louis Aragon called him the greatest European poet of his time. Our translators were Nikos Tsingos and Gwendolyn MacEwen of Canada. Mr. Tsingos, born in Greece, is a musician and singer. His then wife, the poet Gwendolyn MacEwen, worked with him on two of Ritsos" major long poems, Helen and Orestes, published in Trojan Women by Exile Editions.

 

PIERRE JEAN JOUVE - The Queen Of Sheba

Pierre Jean Jouve of France, who died in 1976, was the doyen of French poetry. His Collected Poems appeared in four volumes from Mercure de France. He was the author of a famous novel, Paulina 1880, and he was awarded the Grand Prix des Lettres.

 

MICHEL LAMBETH - Nuescapes

Michel Lambeth of Canada, among the country’s fine photographers, exhibited throughout the world until he died in 1978. Nuescapes was published during his lifetime as a limited edition.

 

ROBERT ZEND - The Key

Robert Zend of Canada was among the most singular and experimental writers in the country. His works include Zero to One, My Friend Jeronimo, Arbormundi, and Beyond Labels. OAB, in two volumes, published by Exile Editions, appeared in 1985, the year he died.

 

JEAN BENOIT - Objects

Jean Benoit of Canada has been a resident of Paris since 1947. His works have seldom been shown publicly, but The Necrophiliac appeared at the International Surrealist Exhibition in 1965, and so too The Bulldog in 1968. The Object to Contain a Mummified Head was exhibited in France in the summer of 1992.

 

DEREK MAHON - Light Music

Derek Mahon of Ireland has published mny volumes of poems including Night-Crossing, Beyond Howth Head, Lives, Poems 1962-1978, The Snow Party, Courtyards in Delft, The Hunt by Night, Antarctica, The Bacchae, and Selected poems.

 

MARGARET ATWOOD - True Romances

 Margaret Atwood of Canada has published poetry regularly in Exile, staring with Volume 1, Number 1. As a poet, she is well known for: The Circle Game, The Animals In that Country, Procedures for Underground, The Journals of Sussanna Moodie, Power Politics, You Are Happy, Two-Headed Poems, True Stories and Interlunar, and Selected Poems.

 

 JACQUES FERRON - Papa Boss

Jacques Ferron of Canada was a story-teller who provided the most inclusive, complete account of his uncertain country, Quebec. It was an account, rendered in dozens of tales, that was mischievous and mythic, appropriate to the man who was both a medical doctor and founder of the Rhinoceros political party. His novels published by Exile Editions are: The Cart, Papa Boss and Quince Jam, and his masterpiece, The Penniless Redeemer.

 

SUSAN MUSGRAVE - Coming of Age

Susan Musgrave of Canada is a novelist and poet, and among her books of verse are: Songs of the Sea -Witch, Grave-Dirt and Selected Strawberries, The Impstone, A Man to Marry A Man to Bury, Tarts and Muggers, Cocktails at the Mausoleum, and with Exile Editions, her most recent selected, The Embalmer’s Art.

 

TIBOR DERY - The Circus

Tibor Dery of Hungary, who died in 1977, was one of Hungary’s greatest writers. After surrealist and dadaist beginnings, he wrote post-war works of such searing reality that he was imprisoned from 1957 to 1960. His novels include: The Answer, Mr. G.A. in X, The Excommunicator, Imaginary Report about an American Rock Festival, and Cher Beau Pere.

 

GUILLEVIC - Carnac

Guillevic of France was born at Carnac, the place of sacred stones, in 1907. His christian name is Eugene but he signs his poems Guillevic. He is one of the most highly regarded of living French Poets. Among his books are: Terraque, Executoire, Gagner, Sonnets, Sphere, Carnac, and a fine bilingual edition translated by Denise Levertov, Selected Poems.

 

RUTH ANDRISSHAK - The Night The Rabbit Chewed My Hair Off

Ruth Andrisshak of Canada published her first, and as far as we know only Story in Exile in 1979. The Night the Rabbit Chewed My Hair Off also was given the CBC fiction award that year.

 

LOUIS de NIVERVILLE - Family Album

Louis de Niverville of Canada, whose paintings are in major collections in the United States and Canada, has had a distinguished career as a painter. Family Album is a work of some sixty objects.

 

ROCH CARRIERR - Hunting Les Anglais

Roch Carrier of Canada is one of the most prolific and popular writers from Quebec. Among his many novels are La Guerre - Yes Sir!, Floralie- Where Are You?, And Is It The Sun Philbert, The Garden of Delights, Heartbreaks Along the Road, Progress of a Very Wise Child, and Canada Je t"aime.

 

BREYTEN BREYTENBACH - Three Poems

Breyten Breytenbach of South Africa published his first volume of poetry in 1964. Through six subsequent volumes of verse, as well as a collection of short stories and a short expirmental novel, he won wide acclaim as the most important living poet of the Afrikaans language. The polarities of his work (Africa and Europe, White and Black, tenderness and violence...) were enhanced by living in exile in Paris after 1960. This condition was forced on him through his marriage to a Vietnamese woman who was branded as "Colored" and hence not socially acceptable in terms of South Africa’s rigid racialistic legislation. His unrelenting crusade for human dignity and against apartheid won him wide international recognition but inevitably increased his private agonies. And in 1975, determined to express his convictions in other than aesthetic terms (he is also highly regarded as a painter) he returned to South Africa in disguise where he was arrested and tried on several counts under the so-called ’terrorism Act". In November 1975 he was sentenced to 9 years" imprisonment and all efforts to appeal against the sentence (whose harshness shocked even his prosecutor) were quashed by the courts. After serving much of his sentence he was released and now lives in Paris again. Our translator is Andre Brink, man of letters, and one that country’s most important novelists.

 

ATHOL FRUGARD - A Lesson from Aloes

Athol Frugard of South Africa is a dramatist whose works include: Hello and Goodbye, Boesman and Lena, People Are Living There, and The Bloodknot. A Lesson from Aloes had its world premier outside South Africa in Montreal, performed by the Centaur Theatre Company in 1980, directed by Athol Frugard. Recently, he received The Obie Award for Drama in New York.

 

DAVID GOLBLATT - Soweto & Hillbrow

David Goldblatt of South Africa is that country’s most important photographer. Among collections of his work are: Some Afrikanners Photographed, and On the Mines. His photographs have been published all around the world and are in many collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1976, introducing these photographs, he wrote: "I have little faith in the strength of these photographs to stand unaided in Winnipeg, Ottawa or Saskatoon, or for that matter in London, Wollongong or Berlin. Not that I think them to be without merit, But because, I wonder, how can anyone not steeped in the life, ways, obsessions, graces, laws and particulars of this place and people, discern what is embedded of us in these pale rubbings?

It would be beyond me to convey in any number of words, yet I wish that I could so concentrate these few that you would have the same intimate grasp of these as any ychild or adult from Naledi or Dube, Yeoville or Pageview.

Most of the photographs were made in 1972 and 1973 in two parts of Johannesburg.

1. Soweto, the dormitory townships of the Africans who work in Johannesburg

2. Hillbrow and other Northern Suburbs of White Johannesburg."

 

JERZY KOSINSKI - The Art of The Self

Jerzy Kosinski of the United States was born in Poland but resided in the U.S. from 1957 until he died by suicide in 1991. Among his novels are The Painted Bird, Steps, Being There, The Devil Tree, Cockpit, and Pinball. One of the strongest supporters of Exile in its beginnings, his essay, The Art of the Self, appeared complete in Volume I, Number 1, in 1972.

 

R. MURRAY SCHAFER - Ariadne

R. Murray Schafer of Canada is a prolific contemporary composer, perhaps the most accomplished expirimental composer in the country. he is also an author, His books include The Book Of Noise, The Music of the Environment, The Tuning of the World, and Ariadne, published by Exile in 1977.

 

MORLEY CALLAGHAN - The Meterman, Caliban, and Then Mr. Jones

Morley Callaghan of Canada wrote over twenty books: Strange Fugitive, It’s Never Over, A Broken Journey, Such Is My Beloved, More Joy In Heaven, The Loved and the Lost, The Many Colored Coat, A Passion in Rome, A Time for Judas, A Fine and Private Place, and A Wild Man on the Road, and others. He died in 1990.

 

 

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