Marly Youmans's Blog, page 105
November 29, 2012
Caustic Cover Critic on Thaliad
The Caustic Cover Critic a.k.a. JRSM has a review post up about Thaliad, and he likes the poem and the art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the design. Here's a clip from the start:
A while ago I was looking at a poet's website and saw that her next book was a post-apocalyptic blank verse epic, with specially commissioned illustrations. Someone's written a book just for me! I thought to myself. And
A while ago I was looking at a poet's website and saw that her next book was a post-apocalyptic blank verse epic, with specially commissioned illustrations. Someone's written a book just for me! I thought to myself. And
November 27, 2012
Gary asks a question...
Marly, here is your assignment for the week now that you have signed your contracts and judged your contest.
In your life and career as a poet, are you writing for yourself, for an existing audience of poetry fans, or are you tying to help expand those who appreciate poetry (and yours, specifically)?
I think that this is a question, if answered thoughtfully by any author (or any builder of
In your life and career as a poet, are you writing for yourself, for an existing audience of poetry fans, or are you tying to help expand those who appreciate poetry (and yours, specifically)?
I think that this is a question, if answered thoughtfully by any author (or any builder of
Lovely
4 days left for pre-order discount on Thaliad hardcovers at Phoenicia. Just saw the first photographs of the finished book, and it looks as beautiful as designer Beth Adams and artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins and I dreamed. My book page here. Order here.
Shake, shake, shake--
Shaker births,
Shaker marriages...
Christmas is on my brain, as I got a sudden commission to write Advent lyrics for a song yesterday evening... Eighteen lines later, I was thinking about how I prefer requests like that one to shopping for Christmas. There's a chasm between the pure ideal of the infant of love and light and the great American shopping frenzy, now on shameful display for the
Shaker marriages...
Christmas is on my brain, as I got a sudden commission to write Advent lyrics for a song yesterday evening... Eighteen lines later, I was thinking about how I prefer requests like that one to shopping for Christmas. There's a chasm between the pure ideal of the infant of love and light and the great American shopping frenzy, now on shameful display for the
November 26, 2012
Book promises
Contracts on my mind...
I've just had two requests for story reprints, so that's pleasant.
And today I shall send back three book contracts with some amendments but signed. I've taken a long time to finalized these, and have dithered a good deal. That's what comes of not bothering to get another agent and yet hating to do business. I'm keeping ebook rights and a few others.
FSG, 1996
One of
I've just had two requests for story reprints, so that's pleasant.
And today I shall send back three book contracts with some amendments but signed. I've taken a long time to finalized these, and have dithered a good deal. That's what comes of not bothering to get another agent and yet hating to do business. I'm keeping ebook rights and a few others.
FSG, 1996
One of
November 24, 2012
Me and bf Homer
Collage vignette for THALIAD
by the great Clive Hicks-Jenkins of Wales!
www.phoeniciapublishing.com
SILLY THALIAD CONVERSATION
Poet/novelist, aware of that people want new electronic games and semi-alien gadgets for Christmas instead of a blank verse narrative poem, even if it is post-apocalyptic: I need to get together with Beth in the next few weeks and brainstorm. It's not easy for an
by the great Clive Hicks-Jenkins of Wales!
www.phoeniciapublishing.com
SILLY THALIAD CONVERSATION
Poet/novelist, aware of that people want new electronic games and semi-alien gadgets for Christmas instead of a blank verse narrative poem, even if it is post-apocalyptic: I need to get together with Beth in the next few weeks and brainstorm. It's not easy for an
Finally, an explanation for what's wrong with government, academia, and The DaVinci Code
A re-post from 9/28/05: I stumbled on this one while hunting through the past and was surprised to realize how much this strange book influenced my writing at the time. I wonder if it's common for a nonfiction book to take such hold of a writer's imagination... And I can't say that it has happened since.
Like everybody else, I've wondered why the world sometimes appears such a miscreant place,
Like everybody else, I've wondered why the world sometimes appears such a miscreant place,
November 23, 2012
Thaliad reminder: one week left
Reminder: one week left to purchase Thaliad in hardcover at the pre-order discount directly from Phoenicia Publishing (and so helping a small press as much as is possible with your order.)
Post-apocalyptic story in blank verse, with jacket and profuse interior art by major artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins of Wales, beautifully designed by Elizabeth Adams of Montreal... The first pre-orders will be
Post-apocalyptic story in blank verse, with jacket and profuse interior art by major artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins of Wales, beautifully designed by Elizabeth Adams of Montreal... The first pre-orders will be
November 21, 2012
I celebrate my Thanksgiving birthday with Keats--
I give thanks for a conflagration of cake with yet another birthday with an excerpt from a document written on November 22nd in 1817--a letter from John Keats to his friend Benjamin Bailey that is full of dear concern for a friend, bright musings, and the ideal. He may have despaired that his name was "writ in water," but it was the kind of water that splits rocks or springs up as new life...
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More Yolanda Sharpe
Part two of an interview with artist and soprano Yolanda Sharpe here.
