Marly Youmans's Blog, page 108
October 27, 2012
This is no post!
The young and frolicsome Bards are here from Bard College, feasting and exploring the village and feasting some more. And tomorrow is booked with events from early in the morning to late at night, so see you Monday...
New Thaliad page up here on the 1st. (New public facebook page is already up.) A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and The Foliate Head pages are updated--see tabs above.
New Thaliad page up here on the 1st. (New public facebook page is already up.) A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and The Foliate Head pages are updated--see tabs above.
October 25, 2012
Novelist Lee Smith on Thaliad
Pre-orders for the limited edition hardcover of Thaliad will begin on November 1st at the Phoenicia Publishing website, and by the close of the month the book will be springing out into the world, turning handstands and flashing its lovely Clive Hicks-Jenkins artwork and Elizabeth Adams design at passers-by. Here is a foretaste.
In THALIAD, Marly Youmans has written a powerful and beautiful
In THALIAD, Marly Youmans has written a powerful and beautiful
Deep diving
David Austen for Ch. 30, "The Pipe"
How did I miss this?
I somehow overlooked the Big Read of a Big Book, a novel I have long loved. Moby Dick is a book that goes resolutely its own bright, ecstatic way and tramples on the middlebrow novel like an archangel crashing down on a minor demon.
Luckily for me (with my head evidently swathed in the clouds), Midori Snyder writes about the
How did I miss this?
I somehow overlooked the Big Read of a Big Book, a novel I have long loved. Moby Dick is a book that goes resolutely its own bright, ecstatic way and tramples on the middlebrow novel like an archangel crashing down on a minor demon.
Luckily for me (with my head evidently swathed in the clouds), Midori Snyder writes about the
October 24, 2012
Reading Morgan Meis at "The Smart Set"
from "Egg Head," subtitled "For Martin Kippenberger, variety was the way to unify the world around him" In which he looks at bewildering mutability as one artist's way of compassing the world.
As nearly everyone has noticed, art in these times presents some unique challenges. One of the most unique is what I like to call the why-do-this-and-not-that problem. In times of yore, this wasn't such a
As nearly everyone has noticed, art in these times presents some unique challenges. One of the most unique is what I like to call the why-do-this-and-not-that problem. In times of yore, this wasn't such a
October 22, 2012
Getting a few things off the writer's chest--
On Martel and on being a judge
Why are journalists and others complaining that Martel should not have gotten the Booker because a. she has one already and b. somebody else could have used the promotion? If she should not have gotten it--a thing I do not know, not having read the books that are finalists--that judgment should have been made on other grounds entirely.
As somebody who (with four
Why are journalists and others complaining that Martel should not have gotten the Booker because a. she has one already and b. somebody else could have used the promotion? If she should not have gotten it--a thing I do not know, not having read the books that are finalists--that judgment should have been made on other grounds entirely.
As somebody who (with four
October 20, 2012
Haunted
2:00 a.m...
My favorite part of the haunted house and hayride-with-no-hay in Elmira was when my youngest, now 15, had me by the coat (ouch! pulled out my hair) and said in a slightly high-pitched voice and various intonations: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
Spooky-wise my favorite things were the shadowy man who leaped down from the ceiling and kept appearing in my peripheral
My favorite part of the haunted house and hayride-with-no-hay in Elmira was when my youngest, now 15, had me by the coat (ouch! pulled out my hair) and said in a slightly high-pitched voice and various intonations: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
Spooky-wise my favorite things were the shadowy man who leaped down from the ceiling and kept appearing in my peripheral
Washed-world
Gerard Manley Hopkins visited me this morning. We admired the yellow leaves hung with raindrops. I wrote him a poem.
October 19, 2012
Midori Snyder on Thaliad
Novelist Midori Snyder has written a lovely piece about the upcoming Thaliad on her blog, In the Labyrinth. She has read the book twice, a thing I love--rereading is the best reading--and has some interesting things to say about it in her post, "The Sublime Collaboration of Author Marly Youmans and Artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins: Thaliad."
She also sent a blurb that draws on the review but is
She also sent a blurb that draws on the review but is
October 18, 2012
Insomniac party with Christian Wiman
I have been reading and enjoying Christian Wiman's Ambition and Survival, picked up at the West Chester Poetry Conference in June and signed by himself . . . What did I say to him? Nothing much. What was I to him but another blurred face passing?
But when I woke at 4:00 a.m., I wandered here and there and settled on this Wiman essay. It has many figures and moments I recognize and respond to; it
But when I woke at 4:00 a.m., I wandered here and there and settled on this Wiman essay. It has many figures and moments I recognize and respond to; it
October 17, 2012
Catherine Wiecher Brunell's first book
It's always interesting when somebody you know publishes her first book. In this case, it was Catherine Wiecher Brunell, one of the people I met through Miroslav Volf's Faith as a Way of Life national working group at Yale Divinity School. I wish her book well and hope that it finds that splendid little boat, readership. It is told in the scrupulously honest voice of a woman in search of how to
