Volume 1 Number 1
Summer 1972
JOHN MONTAGUE - The Fault
John Montague of Ireland is outstanding among Irish poets. Two of his collections, A Chosen Light and Tides, were published by the Swallow Press in the United States. The Fault is a section of The Rough Field, his epic poem set in Ulster, and printed by the Dolmen Press.
MORLEY CALLAGHAN - In the Dark and the Light of Lisa
Morley Callaghan of Canada is the author of several collections of short stories, a reminiscence, That Summer In Paris, and several novels, which include: The Loved and The Lost, the Many Colored Coat, and A Passion in Rome. His work has been translated into every major language.
MARGARET ATWOOD - Head Against White
Margaret Atwood of Canada is the author of several books of poetry which include: The Circle game; The Animals In that Country; The Journals of Susanna Moodie; Procedures For Underground and Power Politics. Her novels include: The Edible Woman and The Forehead Eye.
SAMAR ATTAR — The Return of the Dead
Samar Attar of Syria has published numerous poems, short stories and essays in Syrian, Lebanese and English periodicals.
JERZY KOSINSKI - The Art of the Self
Jerzy Kosinski of the United States was born in Poland. His works include: The Painted Bird; Steps (which won the 1969 National Book Award); The Future Is Ours, Comrade, No Third Path, and Being There. The Future Is Ours, Comrade and No Third Path were published under the pen name Joseph Novak. His fiction has been translated into every major language.
YEHUDA AMICHAI - Three Poems
Yehuda Amichai of Israel is the author of several collections of poetry, short stories, and novels.
MICHEL DEGUY - Four Poems
Michel Deguy of France is foremost among poets of that country. He has published collections from Gallimard (to whom acknowledgement is made for permission to reproduce his poems) and a number of essays collected in Actes.
GARRY ENGKENT - The World Wasserman Made
Garry Engkent of Canada is a writer and The World Wasserman Made is his first published story.
ROBERT ZEND - OAB
Robert Zend of Canada was born in Hungary and came to Toronto in 1956. He writes in both Hungarian and English. His poems have been published in several anthologies and periodicals, and his first volume of verse to be published is From Zero To One. The selection we have printed is from the larger book called OAB.
N’CALINA
— Two PoemsN’calina of Canada is a poet never previously published.
DREW FARRELL - Five Poems
These are the first published poems of Drew Farrell of Canada, a poet from the prairie province of Alberta.
MARIE-CLAIR BLAIS - Le Loup
Marie-Claire Blais of Canada is the author of poems, works for the theatre, and several novels which include: The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange and A Season In The Life of Emmanuel (which in 1966, won the Prix Médicis in France). Her work has been translated into the major languages.
Volume 1 Number 2
Winter 1972
YEHIA HAKKI - An Empty Bed
Yehia Hakki of Egypt is outstanding among writers in the Arab world. He published his first story in 1925, the same year that he graduated in law. Since then, he has played a prominent role in cultural affairs in Cairo, publishing collections of his stories and editing an important journal.
ROBERT MARTEAU - Six Poems
Robert Marteau of France is among the important young poets of that country. He has published a number of volumes, including Royaumes, Travaux sur la Terre, and Sibylles.
JOE ROSENBLATT - Five Poems
Joe Rosenblatt of Canada is the author of The LSD Leacock, Winter of The Luna Moth, The Voyage of the Modd, Bumblebee Dithyramb, and Greenbaum (a collection of drawings).
CLAUDE GAUVREAU - The Good Life; Silex De Capricéphale; Reflections of a Young Dramatist
Claude Gauvreau was born into the closed world that was Quebec. For twenty-five years, until his death in 1971, he wrote poems, plays, short stories, essays, prefaces, public letters and manifestos. But he published very little: only two small books of poems, so that when he died he was almost entirely unknown. His first friends and admirers were those painters who banded together around the now famous Borduas and Riopelle in the late forties and through 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, denouncing the reactionary church, the political and poetic hacks, 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 had little regard for his own social or financial position. He died as he lived; poor and alone except for a few friends and admirers.
WILLIAM KURELEK - Another Person with Me
William Kurelek of Canada is a painter whose work is in numerous private collections and museums like the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; London Art Museum, London. Another Person With Me is his autobiography.
Mr. Kurelek’s paintings have been presented through the cooperation of: The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
ROCHELLE OWENS - from The Joe 136 Creation Poems
Rochelle Owens of the United States is among the most innovative playwrights of her generation. Futz was given the New York Obie award in 1968; The Karl Marx Play was published in The Best Short Plays: 1971; she has also published a collection of her plays, Futz And What Came After and four books of poetry.
JERZY KOSINSKI - Notes on The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski of the United States was born in Poland but he has been in the U.S. since 1957. His novels, written in English, are The Painted Bird; Steps; and Being There. He is also the author of two non-fiction works, both on collective behavior, The Future Is Ours, Comrade and No Third Path. These were published under the pen name Joseph Novak. His fourth novel, The Devil Tree, has been published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
MARGARET AVISON - Three Poems
Margaret Avison of Canada is the author of two books of poetry: Winter Sun and The Dumbfounding.
BARRY CALLAGHAN - Edmund Wilson
EDMUND WILSON - from A Christmas Delirium: A Christmas Stocking
Edmund Wilson of the United States died in June, 1972. since his death, two books have been published: To The Finland Station (re-issued with a new introduction); and A Window On Russia, a collection of essays on Russian writers.
Volume 1 Number 3
Summer 1973
ROCH CARRIER - Hunting Les Anglais
Roch Carrier of Canada is the author of a collection of stories, Jolis Deuils, and of a trilogy, La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Floralie, Où Es-Tu? and Il Est Par Là, Le Soleil. These novels have been translated into English, and La Guerre, Yes Sir! was adapted for the theatre and performed recently at Stratford, Ontario. He is now completing another novel, to be published this fall in Quebec.
JOHN MONTAGUE - The Cave Of Night
John Montague of Ireland is one of that country’s outstanding poets. His last two collections, A Chosen Light and Tides, were published by the Swallow Press in the United States. The Rough Field, a cycle of poems with an Ulster background, has recently appeared in Ireland and England, published by the Dolmen Press of Dublin.GARRY ENGKENT - The Junkman Cometh
Gerry Engkent of Canada is a young writer whose first published story appeared in Exile, Number 1.
JACQUES FERRON - Papa Boss
Jacques Ferron of Canada is one of the most important and prolific writers of contemporary Quebec. A partial listing of his better-known works would have to include his collections of stories, Contes du Pays Incertain and Conte Anglais et Autres; the plays Les Grands Soleils and Le Cheval de Don Juan; and the novels Côtnoir, Le Ciel du Québec and La Nuit. In addition, he has written numerous political and historical essays for left-wing reviews in Quebec. He was instrumental in the founding of the Rhinoceros party in 1963, and is recognized as a major voice of Quebec nationalism. A medical doctor, he serves as a general practitioner in Longeuil, near Montreal.
UNSIGNED - The John Meredith Poems Untitled
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. Mr. Meredith’s paintings have been presented through the cooperation of: The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto. Photograph by Lyle Wachovsky.
ROBERT ZEND - A Bouquet to Bip
Robert Zend of Canada writes in both English and Hungarian. He has had poems published in several anthologies and periodicals. His long poem, OAB, appeared in Exile, Number 1.
MARCEL MARCEAU - This Drawing, Poem, And Zend During And After
Marcel Marceau of France is the world’s greatest pantomimist. In his Bouquet to Bip, Mr. Zend referred to the following:
YOUTH, MATURITY, OLD AGE AND DEATH. In a couple of minutes Marceau walks through life from birth to death.
REMEMBRANCES. An old man becomes young again as he relives the past.
THE SCULPTOR. A sculptor shapes a huge block of clay by eliminating the superfluous parts of it until it becomes nothing.
THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. The first six days of Genesis.
THE HANDS. The struggle between good and evil personified by the two hands.
THE MASKMAKER. The maskmaker enjoys himself by trying on his various masks, but the clown’s mask sticks on his face and it is laughing while he is crying for not being able to get it off.
THE PUBLIC GARDEN. One day in a public garden, all the different characters appearing, all of them personified by one man, Marceau.
BIP ILLUSIONIST. Bip appearing and disappearing unpredictably between two black blocks.
THE DREAM. The dreamer lives through various phases — horror and happiness, depression and freedom — of dreams.
MORLEY CALLAGHAN - The Meterman, Caliban, and then Mr. Jones
Morley Callaghan of Canada was the author of several collections of short stories, a reminiscence, That Summer in Paris, and ten novels, including The Loved and the Lost, The Many Colored Coat and A Passion in Rome. His work has been translated into every major language. The story at hand, The Meterman, Caliban, and then Mr. Jones, was begun as a theatrical piece, commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Morley Callaghan died in Toronto in 1990.
Ezra Pound died in Venice in November of 1972. The lines about Pound are quoted from John Berryman.
HARRY SOMERS - Kyrie
Harry Somers of Canada is outstanding among the country’s composers. He is extraordinarily versatile, having written orchestral and chamber music, pieces for chorus and solo voice, four ballets (including The House of Atreus), two 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. He was also commissioned to compose a solo violin piece for Yehudi Menuhin. The Kyrie, one of his most experimental works, was composed during a stay in Rome, and was performed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Volume 1 Number 4
Spring 1974
JOE ROSENBLATT - Five Poems and Five Drawings
Joe Rosenblatt of Canada is the author of several collections of poems which include: The LSD Leacock, Winter of the Luna Moth, The Voyage of the Mood, Bumblebee Dithyramb, and Greenbaum (a book of drawings). His drawings are in many private and public collections and are presented here through the cooperation of the Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto; and specifically, through the courtesy of the following fro: -- Cat House: collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario; Pleasures: collection of Mr. William D. Wilson; The Pets: collection of Mr. John Newlove; O, Spots: the Gadatsy Gallery; The Birds: the Gadatsy Gallery.
FRANÇOISE XENAKIS - She’d Tell Him on the Island
Françoise Xenakis of France is a novelist and playwright who has published Petit Caillou, Des Dimanches et Des Dimanches, Aux Lèvres Pour Que J’aie Moins Soif, and Ecoute. She’d Tell Him On The Island won the Priz Italia in 1971, and a performance of the present translation of the play will be given shortly on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
JOYCE CAROL OATES - The Birth of Tragedy
Joyce Carol Oates of the United States, now a resident of Canada, is the author of many novels, collections of stories, essays and poems. Among them are: Garden Of Earthly Delights, Expensive People, Wheel of Love and Other Stories, The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature, them (which won the National Book Award for 1969), Do With Me What You Will, and Marriages and Infidelities.
MICHEL LAMBETH - The Pause in the Clock
Michael Lambeth of Canada is outstanding among the country’s photographers. He has had a number of one-man exhibitions and has exhibited throughout the world. In 1972, he was the only Canadian represented at the Avignon Arts Festival, France, and in 1973 his work was included in the international Critics Choice in New York.
PHILIPPE THOBY-MARCELIN - Four Poems
Philippe Thoby-Marcelin of Haiti, now a resident of the United States, has collaborated with his brother, Pierre, on several novels, Canapé Vert, La Bête De Musseau, Le Crayon De Dieu, Tous Les Hommes sont fous (which has been translated and published with an introduction by Edmund Wilson as All Men Are Mad). The works presented here are from the author’s unpublished manuscript of poems from the past four decades.
MARIE CLAIRE BLAIS - St. Lawrence Blues
Marie-Claire Blais of Canada is the author of poems, works for the theatre, and several novels including, David Sterne, The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange, A Season In The Life Of Emmanuel (which in 1966 won the Prix Médicis in France) Le Loup and Un Joualonais, Sa Joualonie. The latter, translated under the title, St. Lawrence Blues, was published in the United States.
MARY MEIGS - Four Drawings
Mary Meigs of the United States is a painter now living in Brittany. She has done illustrations for two other books my Marie-Claire Blais: Une Saison Dans La Vie d’Emmanuel and Les Manuscrits de Pauline Archange. The illustrations in this issue are the first four of a series for Un Joualonais, Sa Joualonie (St. Lawrence Blues). She has had one-man shows in Boston, New York and Paris and is in the permanent collection of the Slater Museum.