15 Years in Exile, Volume 16, Number 4 (Exile Editions Volume 1)
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GALWAY KINNELL - When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
Galway Kinnell of the Untied States has published First Poems 1946 -1954, What a Kingdom It Was, Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock, Body Rags, The Book of Nightmares, Mortal Acts; Mortal Words, Selected Poems, The Past and When One has Lived a Long Time Alone . He has received the MacArthur Foundation Award.
LEON ROOKE - The Heart Must from Its Breaking
Leon Rooke of Canada is the author of several works, including Sing Me No Love Songs, The Broad Back of the Angel, A bolt of White Cloth, Fat Woman, Shakespeare’s Dog, The Birth Control King of Upper Volta, The Good Baby, and The Happiness Of Others.
PATRICK LANE - Mortal Remains
Patrick Lane of Canada has published fourteen volumes, among them Poems New and Selected, The Measure, Old Mother, A Linen Crow/A Caftan Magpie. Selected Poems, Winter, and Mortal Remains, published by Exile Editions. He has received the Governor General’s award for poetry.
MORLEY CALLAGHAN - The Chiseller
Morley Callaghan of Canada wrote over twenty books: Strange Fugitive, It’s Never Over, A Borken 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 Old Man on the Road, and others. He died in 1990.
JOYCE CAROL OATES - Four Miniature Narratives
Joyce Carol Oates of the United States is prolific. Among her many works: On Boxing, You Must Remember This, Them, Bellefleur, The Assignation, Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart, I Lock My Door Upon Myself, Oates in Exile, and a play, I stand Before You Naked, published in Exile.
AARON WOODLEY - The Ratcatcher
Aaron Woodley of Canada is a young student of film. This was his first published work. He subsequently received the Toronto Arts Foundation Protege Award.
SLAVKO MIHALIC - Three Poems
MARGARET ATWOOD - Murder in the Dark
Margaret Atwood of Canada is an internationally known poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist and anthologist. Among works of fiction, she has published: Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bluebreads Egg, The Edible Woman, Dancing Girls and Other Stories, The Handmaid ‘s Tale, Bodily Harm, Cat’s Eye, Wilderness Tips, and Good Bones.
PAUL-MAIRE LAPOINTE - Red Mouth
Paul-Maire Lapointe of Canada has been recognized since 1948 as a unique voice in Quebec letters. His works include The Virgin Burned, Night of November, Choice Of Poems, For All Souls, The Canvas of Love and Other Poems, Red Mouth, and a selection translated by the poet D.G. Jones, The 5th Season, published by Exile Editions.
GWENDOLYN MACEWEN - Two Poems
Gwendolyn MacEwen of Canada died in the fall of 1987. Her works include: Selah, The Drunken Clock, The Rising Fire, A Breakfast for Barbarians, The Shadow-maker, The Armies of the Moon, Magic Animals, The Fire-eaters, The T.E. Lawrence Poems, Earthlight, and Afterworlds, which won the governor General’s award for poetry in 1987.
IGOR PODOLCHAK - The Kiss
Igor Podolchak of Ukraine lives and works in some obscurity, even in his home country. His work has not appeared in the West before.
WILLIAM RONALD - Endgame
William Ronald of Canada, one of the most idiosyncratic presences and innovative painters in the country, was a founding member of the country’s pioneer group of Abstract painters, Painters Eleven. His work is in every major Canadian and American public and corporate collection as well as in most of the important private collections.
STEPHANIE RAYNOR - Magic Carpet
Stephanie Raynor of Canada is a painter whose work is in many private and public collections in Canada.
MICHAEL CALLAGHAN - Hidden Beginning
Michael Callaghan of Canada is a young painter who has had several one-man shows. His work is in many private collections.
MIMI PARENT - L’Orhelin
Mimi Parent of Canada has lived in France since the mid-forties and had been associated for years with the French surrealist movement. Her works have been shown in numerous surrealist group exhibitions, recently, in a one-woman show in Berlin, and in France in the summer of 1992;
WILLIAM RONALD - Kiyo
CLAIRE WEISSMAN WILKS - One Flesh
Claire Weissman Wilks of Canada has had recent exhibitions of her work in Jerusalem, Stockholm, Venice, Rome, Zagreb, and Toronto. In the White Hotel, drawings with a poem by D.M. Thomas, appeared in 1991.
MIMI PARENT - Diane
VASKO POPA - Give Me Back My Rags
Vasko Popa of Serbia, when it was still part of Yugoslavia was one of Europe’s most important poets. Born in 1922, he died in 1991. his translator Charles Simic, is a distinguished American Poet who published a fine selection of Popa’s work, Homage to the Lame Wolf.
SOREL ETROG - Spiral
Sorel Etrog of Canada is a sculptor and a painter whose works are represented in the major capitals of the world. He has illustrated books by Ioneso, Beckett, and others. His works also include Hinges, a play in three acts, Dream Chamber ( Joyce and the Dad Circus), The Kite(A Bodyfestation) and others. His silent film Spiral was shown on the CBC in 1975.
The film Spiral is the fourth sequence of the play Hinges , begun in 1968. The first act (Booing with the Public) dealt with the importance of habit. The second act (The Wallpaper) dealt with a domestic game of imprisonment. The Third act called Tomato Bush (Deadend) dealt with the imprisonment of fate. An intended fourth act, which became the footnotes for the film, Spiral, dealt with the imprisonment of time. It is a silent film, accompanied by music from Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. It was made between 1970 and 1974. Marshall McLuhan presented Spiral to his students at his Centre for Culture and Technology in Toronto, and later suggested to Etrog that he order stills from it for the publication of a book.
During 1975 McLuhan worked on a free-form text of quotations selected from James Joyce’s Ulysses and from many other writers, as a response to Etrog’s selected images. The complete Spiral was published by Exile Editions.
ALEJANDRA PAZARNIK - The Bloody Princess
Alejandra Pizarnik of Argentina published seven volumes of poetry during her lifetime. The prose piece appearing in this volume represents her only published fiction. She died in 1972.
MIHALY KORNIS - Petition
Mihaly Kornis of Hungary, one of the younger generation of the country’s writers, is the author of several volumes of prose and plays. He won the Hungarian Theatre Critics Prize, 1988.
MILIVOJ SLAVICEK - Two Poems
Milivoj Slavicek of Croatia is a leading modern poet who lives in Zagreb. His poems, translated in a selection titled, Silent Doors, were published in a bilingual volume by Exile Editions.
VASYL HOLOBORODKO - Katerina
Vasyl Holoborodko of Ukraine is in the forefront among younger poets in that republic. His first bilingual collection of selected poems, Icarus with Butterfly Wings, was published Exile Editions.
DIANE KEATING - The Salem Letters
Diane Keating of Canada is a poet who has published In Dark Places, No Birds or Flowers, The Optic Heart, and a novel, The Crying Out, from which The Salem Letters is taken.
YEHUDA AMICHAI - Six Poems
Yehuda Amichai of Israel , one of the founding contributing editors to Exile in 1972, ia a poet, novelist, short story writer and dramatist. His recent books are his Songs of Jerusalem and Myself, Amen, Time, Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers, Selected Poems and the bilingual Travels, published by Exile Editions.
CLAIRE WEISSMAN WILKS - Medallions
RIKKI DUCORENT - The Jade Cabinet
Rikki Ducornet of the United States has published several books of fiction: The Butcher’s Tales, The Stain, Entering Fire, The Foundations of Neptune, and six books of poetry.
MIEKE BEVLANDER - Head
Mieke Bevelander of Canada is a painter who has exhibited nationally and in Europe.
MARILYN BOWERING - George Sand’s Lettter
Marilyn Bowering of Canada has published several volumes of poetry, including: One Who Became Lost, The Killing Room, Sleeping With Lambs, Giving Back Diamonds and Anyone Can See I Love You. She has also published Grandfather Was a Soldier, a dramatic piece, and a novel, To All Appearances a Lady.
DEBORAH SAMUEL - Wideword
Deborah Samuel of Canada is one of the most accomplished and innovative photographers in the country. This portrait is from her series Wideword 1987.
ALICE BOISSNNEAU - There will be Gardens
Alice Boissonneau of Canada is the author of Eileen McCullough a novel, and There will be Grdens, a memoir.
P.K. PAGE - I-Sphinx
P.K. Page of Canada is one of the country’s most important poets. Her works include: Cry Ararat, Poems Selected and New, Evening Dance of the Grey Flies, and Brazilian Journal.
ARMONIA SOMERS - The Fall
Armonia Somers of Uruguay has published novels, including La mujer desnuda, and her Collected Stories. Under her real name, Armonia Etchepare de Henestrosa, she has written several books on teaching. Her translator, and the translator of many stories from South American countries, is Alberto Manguel, man of letters, and novelist.
N.J. DODIC - Two Stories
N.J. Dodic of Canada is a young poet and story writer.
ANDREI VOZNESENSKY - The Ditch
Andrei Voznesensky of Russia is one of the outstanding poets of his generation. A major selection of his work in translation was recently published as The Arrow in the Wall.
JACQUES FERRON - The Penniless Redeemer
Jacques Ferron of Canada was a stroy-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 politicl party. His novels published by Exile Editions are: The Cart, Papa Boss and Quince Jam, and his masterpiece, The Penniles Redeemer. His translater is the man of letters, Ray Ellenwood.
PAUL ROBERTS - The Palace of Fears
Paul Roberts of Canada has published short fiction in many journals. The Palace of Fears is his first novel.
NIGEL DICKSON - Horse
Nigel Dickson of Canada has had his work appear in many and various journals and magazines. African Weekend was made up of photographs taken in Cameroon and Gabon, where he and a friend went in search of the ghost of Schweitzer and Cardinal leger among the lepers and found a nurse named Living stone.
TOMAS TRASTROMER - Four Poems
Tomas Transtromer of Sweden is in the front rank among poets from that country. His Selected Poems 1954-1986 appeared in 1987.
DAVID WEVILL - Figure of Eight
David Wevill of Canada has published Birth of a Shark, A christ of the Ice-Floes, Firebreak, Where the Arrow Falls, Casual Ties, Other Names for the Heart, and Figure of Eight.
MIODRAG PAVLOVIC - A Voice Locked in Stone
Miodrag Pavolic of Serbia is a poet, translator, essayist, and short story writer. Among his works are: 87 Persaura, Oktave, and Svetli i Tammni Praznici. Singing at the Whirlpool was published in 1983, and A Voice locked in Stone followed in 1986, both published as bilingual texts by Exile Editions.
MIEKE BEVELANDER - Cathedral
CHARLES PACHTER - Four Lithographs
Charles Pachter of Canada has been an important presence among his country’s painters for two decades. His works are in private, corporate, and national museum collections. The lithographs here were printed by the artist from drawings on stone at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, images produced for the limited edition folios The Circle Game and Expeditions to accompany poems by Margaret Atwood.
GUNTER KUNERT - In the Closet
Gunter Kunert of Germany, born in what was the East, is well known as a poet and essayist. Since 1963 he has published 20 books: Memory of a Planet, On the Way to Utopia, The Cries of a Bat . This story was his first translation into English, from a collection, Back to Paradise. The translator, Hans Werner - writer in his own right - has translated Delius, Kunert and Schadlich for Exile.
IMANTIS ZIEDONIS - Epiphanies
Imantis Ziedonis of Latvia is the author of fourteen books of poetry, two books of poetry in prose, four children’s books and four literary travelogues. His work had been translated into fifteen languages, but not into English until Flowers of Ice appeared in 1987, translated by Barry Callaghan.
ROBERT ZEND - OAB
Robert Zend of Canada was among the most singular, expirimental 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.
HANS JOACHIM SCHADLICH - EastWest Berlin
Hans Joachim Schadlich of Germany has published three books of fiction - two collections of stories, Approximation and East/West Berlin, and a novel, Tallhover. East/West Berlin was published in translation by Exile Editions.
BRIAN BRETT - Tanganyika
Brian Brett of Canada has published fiction, The Fungus Garden and Tanganyika, and poetry, Evolution in Every Direction.
D.M. THOMAS - An Occurrence Near Love Field
D.M. Thomas of England has published a half-dozen volumes of verse, and is well-known for his translations of Russian poetry. His novels include, The Flute-Player, Birthstone, Ararat, Swallow, Lying Together, Sphinx, Memories, and The White Hotel. An Occurence Near Love Field is a work in progress.
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WILLIAM RONALD - Naked Rite