Marly Youmans's Blog, page 131
February 27, 2012
Throne Sampler
Here are links to some of the poems from The Throne of Psyche that are on this site--probably I have posted some others, but these popped up easily. So here they are in one place, so you wander through them and have a sense of the book. At 109 pages, the book is rather long for a volume of poetry, so there's plenty left to discover.
Cover image: Clive Hicks-Jenkins
As for ordering a book
Cover image: Clive Hicks-Jenkins
As for ordering a book
February 26, 2012
Sampling Dale Favier's "Opening the World"
The cover features an oil-on-panel by Robin Weiss.
In our sometimes prosaic world, poetry needs all the favors and luck it can get. I have been reading Dale Favier's Opening the World from Jo Hemmant's Pindrop Press. Mid-way, I announce: I like it; I recommend it. The other side of the coin says you might like it; you could buy it and find out.
Unlike many people he looks at the world from a
In our sometimes prosaic world, poetry needs all the favors and luck it can get. I have been reading Dale Favier's Opening the World from Jo Hemmant's Pindrop Press. Mid-way, I announce: I like it; I recommend it. The other side of the coin says you might like it; you could buy it and find out.
Unlike many people he looks at the world from a
February 25, 2012
"Beauty, Outlaw of the Arts"
I, Ferrywoman, battled snow devils and bursts of snow to rescue child no. 3 from camp near Greenwich; when I arrived, my incredibly skinny boy of 14 was perched on the very heights of the ridiculous, sporting a plush bathrobe over his jeans and large pink and white rabbit ears worn over an orange Cooperstown High School knit cap. Evidently there had been an Easter egg hunt in the snow, and he
February 24, 2012
Sundry
PAPERWORK
Feeling a little weary after a kid-ferrying day, to be done again soon, and realizing that I simply must take some days off for disgusting things like taxes (not only like taxes but taxes--also other related things.) I like paperwork of a very particular kind, I fear.
FUTURE-BLOGGING-THOUGHTS
Meanwhile, I am pondering weaving something new into my blog. I have meant to transcribe my
Feeling a little weary after a kid-ferrying day, to be done again soon, and realizing that I simply must take some days off for disgusting things like taxes (not only like taxes but taxes--also other related things.) I like paperwork of a very particular kind, I fear.
FUTURE-BLOGGING-THOUGHTS
Meanwhile, I am pondering weaving something new into my blog. I have meant to transcribe my
February 22, 2012
Don't miss James Appleton's photographs of Icelandic volc...
Don't miss James Appleton's photographs of Icelandic volcano Fimmvörðuháls erupting against the Northern Lights--grand slide show.
February 21, 2012
Writing the past
WRITING THE TIME-PLACE
Writer Robert Freeman Wexler asked me for any tips on research, as he is planning a novel set in the past. Though I imagine he has quite as much common sense as I do, nevertheless I sent him a few thoughts and now post them here for any other interested parties:
Research/writing tips for stories with historical settings:
1. Think of time as a place you can enter.
Writer Robert Freeman Wexler asked me for any tips on research, as he is planning a novel set in the past. Though I imagine he has quite as much common sense as I do, nevertheless I sent him a few thoughts and now post them here for any other interested parties:
Research/writing tips for stories with historical settings:
1. Think of time as a place you can enter.
Timothy Barrett, papermaker
Mulberry leaf courtesy of Sarah Williams
of Brisbane, Australia and sxc.hu.
I love to meet people who follow a bright thread into the labyrinth of larger life and so transform themselves and their world.
"Look," he said, fingering the lushly textured paper, which dates to the year of Copernicus's birth, "you can see fine lines from the way the threads were sewn down on the mold. And here, if
of Brisbane, Australia and sxc.hu.
I love to meet people who follow a bright thread into the labyrinth of larger life and so transform themselves and their world.
"Look," he said, fingering the lushly textured paper, which dates to the year of Copernicus's birth, "you can see fine lines from the way the threads were sewn down on the mold. And here, if
February 20, 2012
Fairfax, sail away in peace--
Mid-ocean, thought lost, and talking ardently to the planet Venus: so much to astonish! What a creature is man... Go here.
February 18, 2012
The news of poetry--
I just sent off my response to Makoto Fujimura's request for a poem honoring the 100th anniversary of Japan's gift of cherry trees for the Tidal Basin in Washington, D. C. Good commissions are inspiring, and so I wrote a poem in six parts, mingling modes and including dryad and kodama, grafting and planting, journeys and deep-growing, war and peaceful ease. Thanks to Dale Favier for taking a
February 17, 2012
Interview by a college senior
MARLY YOUMANS,
Interview by Benjamin Francis Miller
16 February 2012
When did you first know
you wanted to write for a living?
My mother says she knew I would be a writer when I was in second
grade. I don't remember ever wanting to be much else, though I was also a
professor for a while and enjoyed looking at poetry and fiction with my
students.
What kind of writing do
you
Interview by Benjamin Francis Miller
16 February 2012
When did you first know
you wanted to write for a living?
My mother says she knew I would be a writer when I was in second
grade. I don't remember ever wanting to be much else, though I was also a
professor for a while and enjoyed looking at poetry and fiction with my
students.
What kind of writing do
you
