Volume 27.4

Winter 2003

YI SANG – Encounters and Departures

Yi Sang of (South) Korea (1910 — 1937) was in the forefront of the modernist movement in that country. He was a poet and storyteller and the author of many influential essays on the function of literature in society in his time. In 1977, the Yi Sang Literature Prize, recognizing his high achievement in fiction, was established in Seoul.

LILLIAN NECAKOV – Four Poems

Lillian Necakov of Canada is the author of Hat Trick, Polaroids, Tiny Elvis, My Caucasian Nightmare, Sickbed of Dogs, Listen, Murder Becomes Us, Cowboy in Hamburg, and Crunch.

JAMES MARSHALL – The Last Thing You Want To Look At In A Strip Club

James Marshall of Canada has appeared in Prism International and The Malahat Review. A collection of his short stories is set to be published by Thistledown Press later this year.

MAX JACOB – Poems in Two Parts

Max Jacob of France (1876 — 1944) was one of three figures in France who presided over the artistic movement between the Great Wars: Picasso, Apollinaire and Max Jacob – bohemian turned mystic, burlesque clown turned Catholic – who died in a concentration camp wearing a yellow star. He had enormous influence not only on the generation of French poets who followed the Second War – Cocteau, Fombeure and Prévert – but on the first modern Canadian poet, W.W.E. Ross. These translations appear in Ross’s recently released Irreralities, Sonnets and Laconics (Exile Editions). The books of Max Jacob are: Les Ouevres Burlesques et Mystiques de Frère Matorel, Le Cornet à dés, La Défense de Tartuffe, Le Laboratoire Central, Art Poétique, Les Pénitents en Maillots Roses, Morceaux Choisis, and Derniers Poèms.

MIKE SCHERTZER – A Personal Dictionary

Mike Schertzer of Canada has published numerous books including Short Films from the Fourteenth Century (Exile Editions) and Dissociative Fugue and Devil’s Wine, limited editions of A Personal Dictionary.

JOANNE VASIGA-PROULX – The Taste of Orange

Joanne Vasiga-Proulx of Canada lives in Paris, France, and this is her first published story.

HALLI VILLEGAS – Four Poems

Halli Villegas of Canada has published poetry in Pagitica, Another Toronto Quarterly, and Literary Review of Canada. Red Promises appeared in 2001, and her second book, In The Silence Absence Makes, will appear in 2004.

LAUREN B. DAVIS – For Marlene Who Became A Bear

Lauren B. Davis of Canada, who until recently lived in Paris, but now resides in the United States, is the author of a collection of stories, Rat Medicine and Other Unlikely Curatives, and a novel, The Stubborn Season.

WILLIAM LYNCH – The Puppet Masters

William Lynch of Canada has appeared in the Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Descant, Fiddlehead, Grain, and Exile. He is the author of two novels: Parksville and Clouds.

CLAIRE WEISSMAN WILKS – Colour Section and Cover

Claire Weissman Wilks . (colour section and cover) of Canada has work in many private and public collections, nationally and internationally. She has exhibited in Rome, Toronto, New York, Zagreb, Calgary, Stockholm, Jerusalem and Mexico. In 2004 she will have a retrospective of her work, 1982 – 2002, at the Music Conservatory in Hamilton, Canada

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Autumn 2003

GALE ZOË GARNETT – Transient Dancing

Gale Zoë Garnett of Canada published her first novel, Visible Amazement, in Canada, the US, France and Germany. Transient Dancing is being published this fall in Canada, and comes out in France in 2004. Her short stories have appeared both in Exile and on CBC Radio’s Fall Festival of Fiction.

PRISCILA UPPAL – Live Coverage

Priscila Uppal of Canada is a young poet and fiction writer. She has published three collections of poetry: How to Draw Blood From a Stone (1998), Confessions of a Fertility Expert (1999), and Pretending to Die (2001), all with Exile Editions. She has also published fiction and poetry in national and international magazines. Her first novel, The Divine Economy of Salvation, was published in 2002 to critical acclaim in both Canada and the US, and is to be translated for release in the Netherlands, Belgium and Greece. Her new poetry collection Live Coverage will be released in the fall of 2003.

MIKE SCHERTZER – Evidence

Mike Schertzer of Canada has published numerous books including Short Films from the Fourteenth Century (Exile Editions) and his own dictionary, A Personal Dictionary. Evidence was first performed in its entirety in Vancouver in 2000.

W.W.E. ROSS – Four Poems

W.W.E. Ross of Canada was the country’s first modern poet. During his lifetime, he published privately two small books, Laconics and Sonnets. After his death, a selection of his “imagist” poems appeared as Shapes and Sounds in 1966. This fall, Exile Editions will publish a re-edited version of Laconics along with a selection of his sonnets.

PABLO NERUDA – Love Sonnets

Pablo Neruda of Chile, the Nobel laureate, published Cien sonetos de amor (100 Love Sonnets) in 1959. Neruda, who came to popularity in North America during the turmoil of the Sixties, was equally cherished in Chile as much for his sensual and erotic poetry as for his political poetry.

HAL NIEDZIECKI – Box

Hal Niedzviecki of Canada is a writer, culture commentator, and editor. He has published four books, among them the non-fiction We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture and the novel Ditch, and edited the anthology Concrete Forest, the New Fiction of Canada. He also co-founded the magazine of Zine Culture, Broken Pencil.

KAREN CONNELLY – Two Poems

Karen Connelly of Canada has authored six books of poetry and best-selling nonfiction, the most recent being The Border Surrounds Us. Her best-known book, Touch the Dragon, A Thai Journal, won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, and was also a New York Times Notable Travel Book of the Year in 2002. Her novel The Lizard Cage, about a Burmese political prisoner and the child-labourer he befriends, is to be published in 2004.

NEALE MCDEVITT – A Shrine to Love on the Ganges

Neale McDevitt of Canada published his first book, One Day Even Trevi Will Crumble (Exile Editions), in 2002. He has also published in Another Chicago Magazine, SubTerrain, Pagitica, B&A and Exile. He won the 2002 Greensboro Award for Fiction, the 2000 QWF/CBC Short Story Contest and the 2000 Pagitica Creative Non-Fiction Contest. His stories have also appeared on spoken word CDs and have been adapted as radio dramas.

ALEJANDRO MOJICA – Covers

Alejandro Mojica (cover) of Mexico has been involved with the arts for decades, and has had exhibitions of his paintings in Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Belgium, and Canada.

DURENG BAO – Colour Section

Dureng Bao (colour section) of Inner Mongolia, China, was an “Official Artist” for the Army of China from 1970 to 1974; during this time he studied at the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts, and painted for the Army. After his service-duty, he became the Art Director for a Mongolian publisher, then in 1982 returned to Beijing to continue his art studies and painting. He came to and has lived in Canada since 1990. (www.dureng.com)

Spring 2001

PHILIP PARDI – God’s Shins

Philip Pardi of the United States has published poems and translations in Mid-American Review, Borderlands, New Orleans Review, and Seneca Review.

JUAN VILLORIO – Coyote

Juan Villorio of Mexico has published three books of short stories, La noche navegable, Albercas, and La casa pierde; two novels, El disparo de argón and Materia dispuesta; and four children¹s books. In 1999 he received the Mexico National Prize in Literature, Premio Xavier Villaurritia.

SIBILA PETLEVSKI – Choreography of Suffering

Sibila Petlevski of Croatia has written books of poetry and prose, been the editor of cultural publications, and is the current president of Penn International Croatia. She wrote, in English, the poems that appear here.

LEON ROOKE – Saddam’s Dog and Cupid and Psyche

Leon Rooke of Canada is the author of many novels and collections of short stories, including Painting the Dog; The Best Stories of Leon Rooke; Sing Me No Love Songs; A Bolt of White Cloth; Fat Women; Shakespeare¹s Dog; The Good Baby; Oh! Twenty-seven Stories; Who Goes There; and The Fall of Gravity.

MARY MONTAGUE – Five Poems

Mary Montague of Ireland is a young poet, and recently published her first poetry collection, Black Wolf on a White Plain.

JONARNO LAWSON – The Tailors and the Butcher

JonArno Lawson of Canada is the author of two books of poetry and aphorisms: Inklings and Love Is an Observant Traveller.

JACQUES BRAULT – Two Prose Poems

Jacques Brault of Canada is one of Québec’s outstanding men of letters. Among his works are: Trois fois passera; Moments fragiles; Poèms I, Au petit matin (with Robert Melançon); On the Road No More; Within the Mystery; Poçms choisis 1968-1990, and a novel, Agonie.

THREE ARTISTS/ – Cuban Cantos (Colour Section)

Eduardo Roca Salazar (Choco) of Cuba was one of the inventive 1960s artists to take up the challenge of bringing print making to the level of other Cuban visual arts. He has since won many prizes, and has exhibited extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Zaida del Río of Cuba has won top international prizes in drawing, engraving, lithography and painting, and has exhibited in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Ernesto García Peña of Cuba is highly recognized in his country. He both exhibits and acts as a cultural missionary in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

JOCELYN DUBOIS – Everyone Loves Joe

Jocelyn Dubois of Canada is a young writer. She has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, and is currently working on a novel.

DAVID MATSON – Two Poems

David Matson of the United States is an Episcopal priest in Maine.

ADAM HONSINGER – Details

Adam Honsinger of Canada has published twice before in Exile, and was this year’s recipient of the Douglas College Creative Writing Department’s Maurice Hodgson Award.

ANNE TEYSSIÉRAS – Golem

Anne Teyssiéras of France has published fifteen books, as well as several critical essays and reviews, and has been awarded the Prix Monnier and the Prix du Mandat des Poètes. Golem was published in 2000 by Rougerie Press.

KIETH GAREBIAN – The Frida Kahlo Poems

Keith Garebian of Canada is the author of Pain: Journeys Around My Parents; The Making of Cabaret; The Maiking of West Side Story; A Well-bred Muse: Selected Theatre Writings 1978-1988; William Hutt: A Theatre Portrait; and most recently, Reservoir of Ancestors: Poems.

TRACY CARBERT – Cover Photographs

Tracy Carbert (cover) of Canada is a young photographer who’s work appeared on the cover and in the colour section of Exile 24.4

Spring 2003

SVEND ÅGE MADSEN – The Man Who Created Woman

Svend Åge Madsen of Denmark has extraordinary range as a writer, working as a historical, fantasy, revenge and satirical novelist. Among his works: Virtue and Vice in the Middle Time, Manhunt, The Gift of Eden, The Woman Without a Body and Seven-Age-Madness.

JOHN MONTAGUE – Plains

John Montague of Ireland became, in 1998, the first Ireland Professor of Poetry, in recognition of his major publications: Death of a Chieftain (stories), The Rough Field, The Great Cloak, The Dead Kingdom, Mount Eagle, Collected Poems and Smashing the Piano.

MELISSA HARDY – The Puny Column

Melissa Hardy of Canada is the author of short stories and three novels, most recently, A Cry for Bees and Demon Barrow. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Malahat Review, Ontario Review and Best Canadian Stories. She received the $10,000 Journey Prize for a story that first appeared in Exile.

COLIN CARBERRY – The Green Table

Colin Carberry of Canada is a young poet who has published in The Fiddlehead, Poetry Ireland Review, The Antigonish Review, Pagitica and Exile. His first book, The Green Table, will appear this fall.

SHUKRY AYYAD – In the Surgery

Shukry Ayyad of Egypt, translator of Artistotle’s Poetics and Russian poetry, is also a journalist, an editor, and diplomat. He is the author of essays about the emergence of short fiction in Arabic and two collections of short stories, A New Birth and The University Road.

JAMIE SABINES – Ten Poems

Jaime Sabines of Chiapas, Mexico, was a major poet of the 20th century–Octavio Paz had described him as “one of the best poets working in our tonque.” Before his death in 1999, he published a dozen books, and Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems was translated by W.S. Merwin. His first book, Hora, translated by Colin Carberry, will be published this fall.

BRANDON CRONENBERG – Six Cartoons

Brandon Cronenberg of Canada (illustrations) is a young artist. These are his first published works.

MICHAEL PACEY – Two Poems

Michael Pacey of Canada has appeared in The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, and several other Canadian periodicals. He recently won First Prize in the Poetry category of the Writers’ Federation of NB Annual Competition.

MARK PATERSON – Other People’s Funerals

Mark Paterson of Canada has appeared in several journals, including Sub-terranian, Blood & Aphorisms, Broken Pencil, Pagitica and Pottersfield Portfolio.

FRANK WESTCOTT – Pidgeons

Frank Westcott of Canada, man of letters and composer, is a storyteller and dramatist who has published Frank Westcott’s Apocrypha Stories: The Writer and the Whore, The Fisherman, Lucky, Sotú.

JOHN REEVES – Walking In Bill’s Shoes

John Reeves of Canada (Colour Section and Cover) is outstanding among this country’s photographers. Collections of his portrait work include About Face, Exile’s Exiles and Incontro: Where Italy and Canada Meet.