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Some time next month I shall be abandoning my family at h...

Some time next month I shall be abandoning my family at home (wishing particularly good luck to the job-hunting son while I'm away) and heading to Fujimura Institude in Pasadena, and I have many things to accomplish before that date. So I'll be ignoring my blog for a while, unless something surprising happens.

In book news, Charis in the World of Wonders is back from the printers and looks

And now Charis rejoices...

The ever-thoughtful John Wilson has a new essay up at First Things, and it includes lovely comments on Charis in the World of Wonders. And he calls my illuminator "the incomparable Clive Hicks-Jenkins." I may have to call him Clive the Incomparable from now on...



You may read the whole essay, "Desiderata," at First Things, and here is the much-to-be-desired Marly-and-Clive paragraph for

The Fool rejoices...

Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins






"The Book of the Red King seems to me like a major work, 

if that is a term anyone still uses in the context of poetry."

--Amateur Reader at Wuthering Expectations

So pleased to have the marvelous, wide-ranging Amateur Reader (aka Tom) make a post about The Book of the Red King. (He also mentions a post from novelist Scott G. F. Bailey--always insightful-

NCLR

A poem and two reviews by me,

plus an interview in the NCLROnline,

plus much more...

Click on this link, and then click 

on the image of the cover you see.
Or click individual links below.



"The Woman in the Walls" 

James Applewhite finalist

p. 55



A Virtual Road-Trip Interview:

Conversations with Five Expatriate

North Carolina Writers

by George Hovis p. 56

Dale Ray Phillips p.

A teaser

Charis in the World of Wonders(a novel from Ignatius)now in pre-orderThe Book of the Red King(poetry fromPhoenicia Publishing)is out!Both with the stellar illuminationof Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Advance reader comments aka blurbs for Charis in the World of Wonders are in and looking great. Here's one for a teaser, from wonderful novelist Emily Barton...

“Youmans’ magnificent storyteller brings the

Charis-peeks

Some cover and interior art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
for my new novel, now in pre-order

The Slumbering Host

The Slumbering Host, ed. Daniel Rattelle and Clinton Collister (Little Gidding Press, 2020)
Cover art by David Baulis.
   ISBN-13: 978-0578622415
A new anthology, a lovely fresh sprout from the soil of North American Anglican. I assume the title is from Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Click the link above for more comments and information and a peep inside. I'm looking forward to encountering

Cousin Faulkner

William Faulkner and Billie Holiday
1956

I'm so glad that other people (that is, people who are not me) are interested in or obsessed with genealogy. Because they turn up the most curious things. My ancestors came over early and really kicked up their military heels in the Revolution, and a lot of them are remembered--a thing I knew nothing about for many years, but eventually found it

Happy New Year's Day

A gaudy gif for you...




Have a wonderful next dance around the sun!

Just made a spanking new facebook page for Charis in the World of Wonders, fit for a New Year's Day. Please drop by, and check out the facebook page for the recent collection of poems, The Book of the Red King, while you're wandering my digital lands. Art on both pages by the marvelous Clive Hicks-Jenkins of Wales.



And

The Rollipoke flies again!

Sweet little birdsby Clive Hicks-Jenkins,made as extra decorationsfor French flaps



That peculiar little newsletter about my writings, The Rollipoke, went out this afternoon (no. 15: Surprises!) News about the upcoming novel, Charis in the World of Wonders (Ignatius Press), and about the new book of poems, The Book of the Red King (Phoenicia Publishing.)

Craving your very own Rollipoke? Fly