Deaf to the City

Deaf to the City
Author: Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2007-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781550960136
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This compelling story explores the motley crew of characters--including mother-turned-stripper Gloria, alcoholic Tim, frequent jailbird Charlie, and the suicidal wife of a rich doctor--who call the rundown Hôtel des Voyageurs home. Mesmerizing in its passion and humility, the narrative evokes the despair and innocence present in modern urban surroundings.

Human

Human
Author: Aude
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781550960075
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Using delicate prose and intense imagery, this translation explores the relationship and struggle of the human body and its inner being. Completely paralyzed by Lou Gehrig’s disease, Magali is imprisoned in her own body, able to communicate only by blinking her eyes. Feeling mentally free but physically trapped, she reflects on her past and regards her present physical existence as a prison. A relationship formed between Magali and her doctor gives one of them the hope to live and the other the grace to die.

Ontological Necessities

Ontological Necessities
Author: Priscila Uppal
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781550960457
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Written with the verve of the uninhibited artist but with a clarity of thought and expression more akin to the scientist or scholar, these poems investigate the emotional and philosophical struggles of contemporary life. Often sparked by the horrors depicted in today's news, the poems combine surrealist images with spare and lyrical language to grapple with an increasingly absurd world. The most ambitious piece in the collection is a radical, post-9/11 translation of the Anglo-Saxon elegy The Wanderer, and other poems include "Don Quixote, You Sure Can Take One Helluva Beating," "Film Version of My Hatred," "Never Held a Gun," and "The Romantic Impulse Hits the Schoolyard."

Lanzmann and Other Stories

Lanzmann and Other Stories
Author: Damian Tarnopolsky
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781550960785
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Ranging widely in subject matter--from a musician's destructive narcissism to the strange effects a persistent Norwegian has on a bachelor's love life--the stories in this collection also vary in style. Both elegantly insightful and highly adventurous, these tales are inventive, deeply comic, sometimes very unsettling, and completely engaging.

That Summer in Paris

That Summer in Paris
Author: Morley Callaghan
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781550966886
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It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America moved to La Rive Gauche—the Left Bank of the Seine River—in Paris. Ernest Hemingway was reading proofs of A Farewell to Arms, and a few blocks away F. Scott Fitzgerald was struggling with Tender Is the Night. As his first published book rose to fame in New York, Morley Callaghan arrived in Paris to share the felicities of literary life, not just with his two friends, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, but also with fellow writers James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Robert McAlmon. Amidst these tangled relations, some friendships flourished while others failed. This tragic and unforgettable story comes to vivid life in Callaghan's lucid, compassionate prose.

Midnight Stroll

Midnight Stroll
Author: Janice Kulyk Keefer
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781550960709
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A unique collaboration that explores themes of love and family, this collection features poems that are based on works of art placed alongside the very works that inspired them. It includes paintings by Natalka Husar; drawings, monotypes, and lithographs by Claire Weissman Wilks; and photographs by Goran Petkovsky.

Technicolored

Technicolored
Author: Jason Guriel
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2006
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781550960037
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Cinematic and literary, this collection of poems reflects on the film icons of the 20th century, offering a fresh look at legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, and B la Lugosi. This work exhibits meticulous tone and language while delving into the opulent world of classic films. Of interest to fans of both contemporary poetry and classic Hollywood, this collection further explores the intersection between film and literature.

Asterisks

Asterisks
Author: David Wevill
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781550960952
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Poems written with clarity and craftsmanship, this collection contemplates what is real and observable versus what is not. The verses are like asterisks that refer to somewhere else, and they strike with meditative depth and spiritual strength. Drawn from experiences in Burma, England, Spain, and the United States, these words depict moments in time and step back into silence.

Green

Green
Author: Marilyn Bowering
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781550960945
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Echos of Frederico García Lorca, Yiannis Ritsons, and Rumi add exoticism to this poet's deceptively simple style. Combining confession with analytical rigor, most of these poems are variations on classic themes, but they are driven by the particulars of politics, love, and family life. As the poems progress, repeated symbols--such as cars, coats, cups, rooms, bees, and roses--begin to hint that the poet has a secret recipe for contentment: home and hearth, travel, warm weather, and a belief in human growth.