Marly Youmans's Blog, page 142
September 17, 2011
Hunter-gatherer of names--
That's a picture of a tabletop in Cullowhee, North Carolina, with some of my mother's embroidery thread spilled across it and a picture of me in my very early 40's... The other picture is of her brand new 4-harness loom, threaded to make a chenille scarf for my eldest son. From this project she learned that she hates working with chenille! But he has an old chenille scarf that he loves, so
September 14, 2011
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
Photograph courtesy of sxc.hu and Kym McLeod of Cann River, Victoria, Australia.
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, winner of The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction at Mercer University Press, is now scheduled to leap into the world in March, 2012.
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, winner of The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction at Mercer University Press, is now scheduled to leap into the world in March, 2012.
September 13, 2011
The nautilus and the laurel leaf
Photo of a gate, Arboretum, Asheville, NC
I was feeling rather sad, reading an account by one of those unfortunate persons removed from planes on the tenth anniversary of 9-11—sad for what we have come to, and also sad to skim the comments and see much good will but also a certain amount of lovelessness and squabbling between people of different nations and races. To love one another seems
I was feeling rather sad, reading an account by one of those unfortunate persons removed from planes on the tenth anniversary of 9-11—sad for what we have come to, and also sad to skim the comments and see much good will but also a certain amount of lovelessness and squabbling between people of different nations and races. To love one another seems
September 12, 2011
The Black Flower
Photograph: courtesy of Ula Kapala of Wroclaw, Polandand sxc.hu
THE BLACK FLOWER
Iris Chang, author of The Rape of
Nanking,
died on November 11, 2004
1.
Sick to Death
At dead of night she woke,
unmoved
By the crickets, moon, and stars;
From old they sang or shone above
The fire and
THE BLACK FLOWER
Iris Chang, author of The Rape of
Nanking,
died on November 11, 2004
1.
Sick to Death
At dead of night she woke,
unmoved
By the crickets, moon, and stars;
From old they sang or shone above
The fire and
September 10, 2011
The Better World
Photograph courtesy of sxc.hu
and Thomas Rathbone of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Ten years gone: was the hour so long ago when all those people were brutally thrust into eternity, throats slashed, passengers burned, and office workers chased into air by fire, the wind unable to do anything but tear at their clothing and let them plunge? No, they were not hounded by fire but by men with fire and
and Thomas Rathbone of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Ten years gone: was the hour so long ago when all those people were brutally thrust into eternity, throats slashed, passengers burned, and office workers chased into air by fire, the wind unable to do anything but tear at their clothing and let them plunge? No, they were not hounded by fire but by men with fire and
September 9, 2011
Oldish book, brand new review--
I love getting a review for a book that came out years before--it's encouraging to think that a book may be temporarily out of print yet still find its intended readers. Here are a few clips from a new review. Thank you, Black Cat Lit!
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Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, The Curse of the Raven Mocker is a complex story inspired by the legends of the Cherokee
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Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, The Curse of the Raven Mocker is a complex story inspired by the legends of the Cherokee
At the mouth of the Susquehanna
Since tropical storm Lee and the Susquehanna have wreaked havoc in New York and Pennsylvania and forced more than a hundred thousand out of their homes, I am taking a walk-in-pictures (a small walk--I live hard by the mouth of the Susquehanna where it flows out of Lake Otsego) to the bridge over the river and Lakefront Park. The mighty Susquehanna, so broad where I crisscross
September 8, 2011
Water Day
Photograph credit: Rain on lady's mantle
courtesy of sxc.hu and michaelaw.
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost was a clever fellow
courtesy of sxc.hu and michaelaw.
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost was a clever fellow
September 7, 2011
Clive at The Gregynog Gallery, 2
Here are more pictures of the preparations for the retrospective of Clive Hicks-Jenkins at The Gregynog Gallery of The National Library of Wales. If you peek around, you may see: Clive with Iwan of the White Gloves; Clive with Peter Wakelin; St. George; my bedroom at Ty Isaf (how did that get in there? wasn't he cute to provide a bear?) complete the two books published in honor of Clive
September 5, 2011
Sundrification, or The Unmade Bed
Today I am starting on my final checks on Thaliad. I only this afternoon grasped that Beth Adams announced on the Phoenicia Publishing blog that the book will be out "before the holidays," so I need to move quickly. I shall be reading it aloud once to check for sound and to make sure that there are no problems with the sense of the thing, and then I shall sweep through looking for metrical
