Welcome to this sample of how the Exile site works.
Within the site itself, each issue that we have published over the past 30 years is catalogued by number, with each author and artist that contributed to that issue listed as they appeared; alongside their name is the Title of their contribution, and by clicking on it you are provided with an excerpt of that piece. (Note: at this point of the site’s ongoing construction, this format/option is available only for Volumes 25 to 29, with the anticipation that throughout the year we will add Volumes 10 - 24. All issues, however, and their contributors, can be found in the Indexed Lists, which catalogues Volumes 28 back to Volume 1).
YEHUDA AMICHAI - Seven Laments for the Fallen in the War
Yehuda Amichai of Israel– who died in 2000 – was a founding contributing editor to Exile (the other was John Montaugue). Selections over the years from all his books appeared in Exile and it is generally agreed that Exile was instrumental in introducing Amichai’s work – nominated for the Nobel Prize – to North America. Exile Editions published a bi-lingual edition of his Travels, reflections on Benjamin of Tudela.
JERZY KOSINSKI - The Art of the Self Essays Àpropos Steps
Jerzy Kosinksi of the United States, hailed as one of the world’s great intellectuals, was a powerful force in contemporary international fiction, particularly because of his novel, The Painted Bird, and Steps. He published his theoretical essays on those two works in Exile.
MAVIS GALLANT - Mau to Lew: The Maurice Ravel-Lewis Carroll Friendship
Mavis Gallant of Canada is one of the country’s – one of the world’s – great storytellers. Through the major part of her career, nearly all her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, but she published her experimental fiction in Exile, and in the special volumes Exile: Fifteen Years in Exile.
JOHN MONTAGUE - The Cave of Night
John Montague of Ireland, a contributing editor to Exile since its inception in 1972, includes among his major publications Death of a Chieftain (stories), The Rough Field, The Great Cloak, The Dead Kingdom, Mount Eagle, Collected Poems (published the year he received the America Ireland Fund Literary Award) and Smashing the Piano. In 1998 he became the first Ireland Professor of Poetry. MARGARET ATWOOD - Five Poems for Dolls Margaret Atwood of Canada is one of the country’s dominating literary presences: poet (True Stories, The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Morning in the Burned House), and theorist (Survival), editor (Oxford Book of Canadian Verse) and fiction writer (Good Bones, The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Oryx and Crake). She has contributed to Exile since its first issue in 1972. SOREL ETROG (artist) - Spiral Sorel Etrog (art) of Canada, born in Romania, is recognized as one of North America’s pre-eminent sculptors. With a career spanning 50 years, he has collaborated with Samuel Beckett, John Cage and Marshall McLuhan. He has exhibited in New York, Paris, Florence, and he has published two books with Exile Editions, Dream Chamber and Spiral: A Film. SEAMUS HEANEY - Funeral Rites Seamus Heaney of Ireland is the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works include New and Selected Poems 1966-1987, The Haw Lantern, Sweeney Astray, Station Islands, North, Death of a Naturalist, Beowulf (translation) and Preoccupations: Selected Prose. He has appeared in Exile on several occasions. WILLIAM KENNEDY - Very Old Bones William Kennedy of the United States is one of that country’s premier novelists. His territory is Albany, New York, and he is best known for his "Albany Cycle"– Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Ironweed, Very Old Bones, Quinn’s Book, The Flaming Corsage and Legs. Over the last 15 years his work has appeared in Exile with regularity. GWENDOLYN MACEWEN - The T.E. Lawrence Poems Gwendolyn MacEwen of Canada died young in 1987 but was already regarded as one of the country’s great poets. Her work appeared in many issues of Exile. Selected Poems: Two Volumes – edited and introduced by Margaret Atwood, Barry Callaghan and Rosemary Sullivan – was published by Exile Editions in 1997. JOYCE CAROL OATES - Two Miniature Narratives Joyce Carol Oates of the United States is a force forcené in American literature. She has published over 20 novels and books of short stories. Sixteen of those stories first appeared in Exile, and they were brought together in Oates in Exile, published by Exile Editions. Excerpts from her novels continue to appear in the quarterly. VASKO POPA - Give Me Back My Rags Vasko Popa of Yugoslavia is generally believed – along with Miodrag Pavolvic, who has also been a constant contributor to Exile – to be one of the founders of modern Yugoslavian poetry and one of the great poets of the world. Among his works are Homage to the Lame Wolfe – Selected Poems, and his great sequence, Give Me Back My Rags (translated by Charles Simic), published in Exile. LUDWIG ZELLER (artist) - Collages Ludwig Zeller (art) of Canada and Chile currently resides in Mexico. His work – poetry and painting – has been in the forefront of the international surrealist movement for decades. His poems and montages have appeared regularly in Exile and his collected love poems, To Saw Only the Beloved to Pieces, and Totem, a poetic meditation of the sculpture of Claire Weissman Wilks, were published by Exile Editions. MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS - Deaf to the City Marie-Claire Blais of Canada is one of Québec’s most distinguished novelists. Among her many awards – the Prix Medici from France. Her works include: A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, St. Lawrence Blues, Nights in the Underground, Deaf to the City, Anna, and Thirst. She appeared in the first issue of Exile, and selections from her almost 20 works of fiction have continued to appear in Exile over the last 30 years. LEONARD COHEN - Death of A Lady’s Man Leonard Cohen of Canada is known and celebrated internationally as a poet and as a troubadour. A major portion of his central work – Death of a Lady’ Man – first appeared in Exile and then in Exile: Fifteen Years in Exile.