15 Years in Exile, Volume 16, Number 1 (Exile Editions Volume 1)
Spring 1992 - Page 2/2
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ASCHER/STRAUS - Snow
Ascher/Straus of the United States have published several works of fiction, including: The Other Planet, The Menaced Assassin, Letter to an Unknown Woman, and Red
ROBERT MARTEAU - Treatise on Tincture and White
Robert Marteau of France is a unique voice among French poets. His books translated and published by Exile Editions are: Atlante, Treatise on Tinture and White, Interlude, Pentecost, Pig Skinning, Mount Royal, River Without End, and Venice at Her Mirror.
GWENDOLYN MACEWEN - The Lawrence Poems
Gwendolyn MacEwen of Canada died in the fall of 1987. Her works included: Selah, The Drunken Clock, The Rising Fire, A Breakfast for Animals, The Fire-eaters, The T.E. Lawrence Poems, Earthlight, Noman’s Land and Afterworlds, which won the Governor-General’s Award for poetry in 1987. Exile Editions published her play and translation, Trojan Women.
YEHUDA AMICHAI - Seven Laments for the Fallen In the War
Yehuda Amichai of Israel has been a contributing editor to Exile since 1972, wherein he has since published several sequences of poems and a play. His books include: Poems, Songs of Jerusalem and Myself, Amen, Time, Love Poems, Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers, and Selected Poetry. Travels was published by Exile Editions.
MICHEL BEAULIEU - Spells of Fury
Michel Beaulieu of Canada was the most productive and the most genuinely experimental of Quebec’s younger poets until his sudden death in 1985. Exile Editions has published Spells of Fury, Kaleidoscope and Countenances.
JUDITH THOMPSON - White Biting Dog
Judith Thompson of Canada is in the forefront of the country’s dramatists. Her works include White Biting Dog, Tornado, Pink, The Crack Walker, and I am Yours, published complete in Exile. Her collection, The Other Side of the Dark, was given the Governor General’s Award, as well as White Biting Dog.
DENNIS BURTON - Notepages and Paintings
Dennis Burton of Canada has paintings and drawings in many important collections including those of the National Gallery, Ottawa, The Art Gallery of Ontario and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Over the last fifteen years, there have been several retrospective showings of his work. Currently, he lives on the west coast.
ANDRE FRENAUD - She Speaks
Andre Frenaud of France, one of the dominant voices in that country, has published Poemes de Brandebourg, Iln"y a pas de paradis, L"Etape dans la clairiere, Depuis toujours deja, La sorciere de Rome, and others. John Montague has translated a selection of verse, Novembre.
SEAMUS HEANEY - Turas
JOY KOGAWA - Obasan
"Joy Kogawa of Canada is a poet who has published The Splintered Moon, A Choice of Dreams, Jericho Road, and as a novelist. Her prose works are: Obasan and Itsuka.
JOHN MERRIDITH - "Untitled
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YEHUDA AMICHAI - Travels
YEHIA HAKKI - The Empty Bed
Yehia Hakki of Egypt was , after the fifties, among the most important writers in the Arab world. He published his first story in 1925, the same year that he graduated in law. After that he played a prominent role in cultural affairs in Cairo, publishing several collections of his stories and editing an important literary/political journal.
CLAUDE GAUVREAU - The Good Life
Claude Gaureau of Canada for twenty-five years, until his death in 1971 by suicide, wrote poems, plays, short stories, essays, prefaces, public letters and manifestoes. But he published very little: only two small books of poems, so that when he died he was almost entirely unknown, His friends and admirers were those painters who banded together around the now famous Borduas and Riopelle in the late forties and throughout the fifties. They were called the Automatistes. Their roots were in Andre Breton and Surrealism, and indirectly, they were related to the Abstract Expressionists of New York. Borduas, Riopelle, Gauvreau, and the others were all powerful personalities, but he was the lone writer, and his was a key role. Their collective effort was not only aesthetic, but socio-philosophical, and he was the needed Porte-Parole out on the firing line. He collaborated in 1947 in the writing of the first Quebec revolutionary manifesto, Refus Global, and he appeared at the subsequent political events of consequence, taking on all comers, defending always that freedom of speech and print so rare in Quebec until very recently. It is fair to say that all his life he lived; poor and alone except for a few friends and admirers. His complete works have since been published in Quebec. Recently, Exile Editions published his collected plays, Entrails.
GERALD GODIN - Kebekanto of Love
Gerald Godin of Canada is the author of several books of poetry, including Poemes et Cantos. He was a cabinet minister in the Parti Quebecois, a party whose political aim is to seperate fro Canada in some form or other.
TOMI UNGERER - Seven Drawings
Tomi Ungerer, born in Strassburg, is now resident in Ireland. His books, satirical, and for children, have been published in numerous countries. He has won countless awards and prizes, including The Society of Illustrators gold medal, and The Art Directors Club Award for best Children’s book, and he has had major exhibitions and retrospective of his paintings, constructions, and drawings on the Continent over the past two decades.
MARGARET AVISON - Two Poems
Margaret Avison of Canada, twice winner of the Governor General’s award, is central to any consideration of Canadian Poetry. Her books spanning four decades of sustained work, are Winter Sun, The Dumfounding, Sunblue, No Time, and Selected Poems.
MICHEL LAMBETH - Rodin’s Hand
HARRY SOMERS - Kyrie
Harry Somers of Canada is one of the country’s outstanding composers. He is versatile, having written orchestral and chamber music, pieces for chorus and solo voice, four ballets (including The House Of Artreus)" three operas (including Louis Riel), and much incidental music. His commissions have come from such diverse institutions as the Koussevitzky Foundation, Pan-American Union, the National Ballet of Canada, The American Wind Symphony, and the Swingle Singers. His Most recent work is Mario the Magician, an opera. Kyrie, first performed in Rome, was published in its entirety in Exile in 1973.
IRVING LAYTON - Catacombe Dei Cappucini
Irving Layton of Canada has over forty published books. He is one of the most passionate, grave, and technically accomplished poets of his time. Selected Poems 1945-89: A Wild Peculiar Joy contains all his most important poems.
PAUL CELAN - Three Poems
Paul Celan of Germany, one of the most important poets to write in German, was born into a Jewish Family in 1920. His parents were killed in the Holocaust. His sense of loss and suffering could not be healed. He died, a suicide, by drowning in 1970. The sequence of poems published in Exile became part of a splendid bilingual edition, Paul Celan: Poems, translated by Michael Hamburger.
HUGH GRAHAM - Where the Sun Don’t Shine
Hugh Graham of Canada has published fiction and is a dramatist, essayist and broadcaster. Where the Sun Don’t Shine, appearing complete in Exile in 1981, was his first published play.
JOE ROSENBLATT - Five Poems
Joe Rosenblatt of Canada, a singular and adventurous poet, has published, among many collections of poems and drawings, The Bumblebee Dithyramb and Topsoil, and with Exile Editions, he has published The Sleeping Lady, Escape from the Glue Factory, and The Kissing Goldfish of Siam.
MARY MEIGS - Drawings for Three Novels
Mary Meigs of Canada, born in the United States, has lived in Quebec for nearly two decades. She is a distinguished painter, and has published Illustration For Two Books by Marie-Claire Blais, with Exile Editions. She has also published two important books of memoirs: Lily Briscoe: A self Portrait and The Medusa Head.
THOMAS KINSELLA - A Technical Supplement
Thomas Kinsella of Ireland is among that country’s most important poets. His books include: Another September, Downstream, Nightwalker and Other Poems, Notes from The Land of the Dead, Poems : 1956-1973 and Peppercanister Poems: 1972-1978. He has also translated The Tain.
ALEXANDRE AMPRIMOZ - Las Ficas City
Alexandre Amprimoz of Canada is a poet, translator, linguist and story teller, and the author of over twenty books. His collection of stories, Too Many Popes, appeared in 1990 with Exile Editions.
CLAIRE WEISSMAN WILKS - The Magic Box
Claire Weissman Wilks of Canada has had exhibitions of her work in Rome, Venice, Zagreb, Jerusalem, and Stockholm. Her books include In the White Hotel, I know Not Why The Roses Bloom, Hillmother, Tremors, and Two of Us Together: Each of Alone.
MIODRAG PAVLOVIC - Singing at the Whirlpool
Miodrag Pavlovic of Serbia is a poet, translator, essayist, and short story writer. Among his works are: 87 Persaura, Oktave and Svetli i Tamni Prazinici. Singing at the Whirlpool was published in 1983, and A Voice Locked in Stone followed in 1987.
MARIO MASCARELLI - Head
Mario Mascarelli of Serbia is an artist who is well-known in the republics that once were Yugoslavia.
JENNIFER RANKIN - From the Mud Hut
Jennifer Rankin of Australia was a poet, and the author of one play. Introducing From the Mud Hut in Exile in 1979, Margaret Atwood wrote:
"I first meet Jennifer Rankin in England, as she was on her way to Australia and I to Venice. Later I stayed with her in Sydney after my visit to the Adelaide Poetry Festival in February 1978. At this time she was feeling very high. Her first major book of poetry had been accepted for publication in England by Secker & Warburg, and she was looking forward to this as an extension beyond Australia, where she was already well-known both as a poet and as a playwright, author of the controversial play, Bees. Three weeks after I left for Canada, she discovered that she had cancer. She underwent chemotherapy, with no positive results. Finally she turned to meditation, and began to improve almost immediately. She is currently practicing meditation under the supervision of a medical doctor who speculates that mediation improves the body’s natural immunity system and allows it to combat cancer.
This would be unnecessary information if the poems in From the Mud Hut had been composed under ordinary circumstances. In fact, they were all written in the three weeks between the time I left Australia and the time Jennifer Rankin made the discovery that she had Cancer. A number of them accurately predict the process she was later to go through, including her terrifying episodes in the hospital and her subsequent recovery. From the Mud Hut is thus one of the most startling examples I"ve yet come across of what Graves refers to as ’the proleptic imagination".
From the Mud Hut was published by Exile. Not long after, Jennifer Rankin Died.
REJEAN DUCHARME - The Zone Of Hardy Deciduous Forests
Rejean Ducharme of Canada, the invisible man of letters of Quebec - he is seldom seen, never photographed - is the author of several works: The Swallower Swallowed, Le Nez qui Voque, L" Oceantune, L"Hiver de Force, Enfantomes, and a play, Ha-Ha!, which won the Governor General’s Award and was published by Exile Editions.
CAIRE WEISSMAN WILKS - Two of Us Together, Each of Us Alone
MARGARET ATWOOD - Five Poems for Dolls
JOYCE CAROL OATES - The Lover
Joyce Carol Oates of the United States is prolific. Among her many works are On Boxing, You Must Remember This, The Assignation, Because It Is Better and Because It Is My Heart, I Lock My Door Upon Myself, and Oates In Exile. Her work appeared in 1973 in Volume 1, and since she has published eighteen stories and a play in Exile.
JOHN MONTAGUE - The Cage
SEÁN VIRGO - Les Rites
Sean Virgo of Canada is a poet, novelist, and story teller. Les Rites, which won the CBC prize for fiction in 1979, was among his earliest stories. Exile Editions has since published Selected Poems, his novel Selakhi, White Lies and Other Fictions Plus Two, Wormwood, and Waking In Eden.
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