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A magazine for the driven out, the exiled, and anyone who's had to find or make a new home for themselves
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​We’re entering an age when more people than ever become victims of forced displacement. We must expand our circle of empathy and develop a deeper sense of trust – without which there will be no shared reality. Art carries off smoke signals of the union between self and nature on which that reality is built. If the world’s a house, art is the force that keeps it from collapsing on itself.

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Exilé Sans Frontières
Fall 2022 issue

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Inclusion as Means of Exclusion

What is the purpose of the artist, one might ask? The Coen brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis points out that art isn’t everywhere, and everyone is not an artist. On the contrary, it says, the artist is a singularity, a creature fated to hobble across the world alone, misunderstood, surrounded by people who don’t get it or try to exploit him and by impostors who pretend to be his peers (and who often make it in his stead). The artist is an exception to the rule, to the spectral-structural Umwelt, the one who can tell that there is a rule, and that the rule is wrong. Had it been right, his sheer presence wouldn’t be needed. He'd be living inside art. 
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) directed by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen

Three    by    Sean    Thomas    Dougherty

When I was about 19 years, / I recall this summer night / I put this Etta James cassette / on my Sony Walkman / & took a bottle of wine / I stole underage from the packy store  ...
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In    Conversation    With . . .

Diana Khoi Nguyen talks about art as a reaching toward and beyond, trusting the unconscious, and making the absent present.
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Children    of    the    Sun,    Drew    Townsend

For children of the sun, they wore their cheeks paler than most. But where was the sun in those days?  ...
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Two    By    Lesle    Lewis

What is the self but an idea of self? / Or two flutes and a harp. / Is truth better than belief? / Or electric guitars? / You’re making it up and making it real ...
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Four    By    Loisa    Fenichell 

​Come dusk, the field makes the sound / of a vanishing. I cut through, feeling / just like a waste below the pinkish clouds / that dangle without any language ...
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System    of    Lines    and    Shadows,    Jay    Waters

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carnivorous    plants,    Eric    Adamson

when a victim is identified it is only in the post / mortem that confirmation can occur. mollusks, / spiders, birds all enjoy alike the sweet sugar of a / pitcher plant, completely lacking self-awareness ...
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Two    By    Matthew    Woodman 

this / rɛd / appears black / rill erosion : arid zones / more vulnerable / to physical weathering ...
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Focus    on    Rika    Maja    Duevel

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Two    By    Iain    Britton

​sometimes i feel stuck in the foreplay of a warm vaporous dream / * / i’m fascinated by this detachment of being – not being / i crave for new sounds – for intakes of fresh air – for / living off the edge of a clock ...
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Ocean    House,    Stephano    Pereira

The front door bursts open / ocean waves gush into the house / and beyond it / the sky is a clean cerulean / touched by a diamond air ...
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Excerpts,    Simone    Weil

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. To come down by a movement in which gravity plays no part ...
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As    It    Is,    David   Ruekberg

Some men have discovered the secret / of power is to simply disregard the / rules. One takes his woman securely / by the throat as if it were her job / and pays her well for it ...
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Conversations    with    the    Neighbourhood    Girl,    Vanessa    Niu

I know what love is. / It hides under the endless growing space under my bed, / pulsing like a second, mechanical heart of mine. / It is my nature to love, although falsely, at a distance ...
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On    How    to    Be    Free    in    the    World,    Jocelyn    Ulevicus

I don’t want to be held back any longer-- / I want to float / in the atmosphere with the darlings / I slaughtered, ringed with marigolds / my dark hair / ringing with blackbirds, / with stars / in my throat ...
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