Marly Youmans's Blog, page 132
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
February 16, 2012
Art: on being asked
WONDERING
This morning I wrote a six-part sequence of poems in answer to a request for a poem on a very particular subject (also from this morning) from Makoto Fujimura for The Curator, a magazine of International Arts Movement. And I'm thinking about the power of asking--the power of a commission, whether paid or unpaid. Right now my friend Clive is going hammer-and-tongs in answer to a
This morning I wrote a six-part sequence of poems in answer to a request for a poem on a very particular subject (also from this morning) from Makoto Fujimura for The Curator, a magazine of International Arts Movement. And I'm thinking about the power of asking--the power of a commission, whether paid or unpaid. Right now my friend Clive is going hammer-and-tongs in answer to a
February 15, 2012
Folded poems
A cheerful display of the books from www.origami.com
One likeable thing about the web is the way it gives rise to new forms--my pen-friend Corey Mesler has just been published in an origami book, and you may have a copy at the price of a sheet of paper and a little ink. Here is the book, with a cover by Corey's teenage daughter Chloe. And here you may follow visual and verbal instructions
One likeable thing about the web is the way it gives rise to new forms--my pen-friend Corey Mesler has just been published in an origami book, and you may have a copy at the price of a sheet of paper and a little ink. Here is the book, with a cover by Corey's teenage daughter Chloe. And here you may follow visual and verbal instructions
February 14, 2012
Nester chooses Blake on "The Lydian Stones"
Valentine's Day pub date!Victorian Violet Press
Illustrations by Nina Canal of France
Today is pub date for Robbi Nester's chapbook from Karen Kelsay Davies' Victorian Violet Press, and Robbi is the featured chooser on The Lydian Stones. Please drop by and leave her a congratulatory valentine. Enjoy!
And here is a cruel winter Valentine for you if you have had enough of candy hearts and
Illustrations by Nina Canal of France
Today is pub date for Robbi Nester's chapbook from Karen Kelsay Davies' Victorian Violet Press, and Robbi is the featured chooser on The Lydian Stones. Please drop by and leave her a congratulatory valentine. Enjoy!
And here is a cruel winter Valentine for you if you have had enough of candy hearts and
February 13, 2012
Final design for "A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage"
Click to see it in full glory! Available as a pre-order now.
Jacket for "A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage"
Click to see it in full glory! Available as a pre-order now.
More author comments... and camellias
Camellia courtesy of sxc.hu and Melodi T.
of Waiuku, Auckland, New Zealand.
In A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, Marly Youmans gives us a beautifully written and exceptionally satisfying novel. The book reads as if Youmans took the best parts of The Grapes of Wrath, On the Road, The Reivers, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and
of Waiuku, Auckland, New Zealand.
In A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, Marly Youmans gives us a beautifully written and exceptionally satisfying novel. The book reads as if Youmans took the best parts of The Grapes of Wrath, On the Road, The Reivers, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and
February 10, 2012
More author comments
At the Mercer site I just found and pilfered a third author comment on A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, and it is very good indeed. So I have the full complement of writers Ron Rash, Lucius Shepard, and now Raymond Atlkins.
To take a look at those remarks, read a description of the book, or leave a comment (comments off on this post), go here.
Whether you obtain books through your
To take a look at those remarks, read a description of the book, or leave a comment (comments off on this post), go here.
Whether you obtain books through your
February 9, 2012
Forthcoming Books
One of the many foliate heads painted by Clive Hicks-Jenkins...
Choosing a cover will be hard!
For various reasons--the global economy and far-off pub dates that hampered me from arranging North American reprints--I have made a number of changes in my publishing schedule, both the when and the who.
POETRY
The Foliate Head - Stanza Press (UK)
Thaliad - Phoenicia Publishing (Montreal, CA)
Choosing a cover will be hard!
For various reasons--the global economy and far-off pub dates that hampered me from arranging North American reprints--I have made a number of changes in my publishing schedule, both the when and the who.
POETRY
The Foliate Head - Stanza Press (UK)
Thaliad - Phoenicia Publishing (Montreal, CA)
