Marly Youmans's Blog, page 144
August 16, 2011
Robin has a giveaway
"The Ill-defined Giveaway": play a game and win books by Amanda Cockrell, Alexandria LaFaye, Hillary Homzie, and me at Robin Rudd's lovely children's literature blog, Robin Has an Idea. As we have learned in recent days, rioters do not desire books. But maybe you do.
August 14, 2011
Updateries 3: all things Marlyish and bookish
Photo: The Throne of Psyche (my new collection of mostly formal poetry
from Mercer University Press) is making friends with the cast of a pattypan
squash that artist Nancy Dahlstrom gave me while we were wandering
in her garden last summer--one of the lesiurely Saturday afternoons I had
while being a busy writer-in-residence for the Hollins MFA program
in children's literature.
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from Mercer University Press) is making friends with the cast of a pattypan
squash that artist Nancy Dahlstrom gave me while we were wandering
in her garden last summer--one of the lesiurely Saturday afternoons I had
while being a busy writer-in-residence for the Hollins MFA program
in children's literature.
1.
August 13, 2011
Irresistible: L. Frank Baum and chickens!
Photo of baby bantam citron-spangled hamburg chicks
by Ryan Zierke under a Creative Commons license at Wikipedia.
Everybody (most everybody?) knows about Flannery O' Connor and chickens. And if you have read this blog for a very long time, you may remember that I have a chicken pact going with novelist Howard Bahr. But do you know about L. Frank Baum and chickens?
According to the
by Ryan Zierke under a Creative Commons license at Wikipedia.
Everybody (most everybody?) knows about Flannery O' Connor and chickens. And if you have read this blog for a very long time, you may remember that I have a chicken pact going with novelist Howard Bahr. But do you know about L. Frank Baum and chickens?
According to the
The Icon Painter, 2
Photo: Andrei Rublev's famous painting of the Trinity,
one of the reproduced illustrations brought along by
the icon painter from Holy Trinity monastery.
Continued from The Icon Painter (notes and musings on an August 11th talk by an icon painter from Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York, part of a six-lecture Arts & Theology series sponsored by Christ Church and Cooperstown IAM
one of the reproduced illustrations brought along by
the icon painter from Holy Trinity monastery.
Continued from The Icon Painter (notes and musings on an August 11th talk by an icon painter from Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York, part of a six-lecture Arts & Theology series sponsored by Christ Church and Cooperstown IAM
August 12, 2011
The Icon Painter
Photo: the interior of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Jordanville,
showing the iconstasis that separates sanctuary from nave.
For more pictures of the cathedral and monastery, go here.
I find it fascinating when I encounter somebody who thinks in a way that is to some degree fresh and new to me. It is interesting to try and enter in and follow along the path of thought and belief. Probably I
showing the iconstasis that separates sanctuary from nave.
For more pictures of the cathedral and monastery, go here.
I find it fascinating when I encounter somebody who thinks in a way that is to some degree fresh and new to me. It is interesting to try and enter in and follow along the path of thought and belief. Probably I
August 10, 2011
Retiring to my jeweled dragon-cave
Photo: The Throne of Psyche (Mercer University Press, 2011.
My poems are hanging out with a Hanoi water puppet dragon
and a Deborah Guertze print.)
Having been delayed by various unexpected events, I have a dire need to retreat from the field today and read and burnish the final manuscript of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage until my eyeballs are pickled! In the meantime, meet me
My poems are hanging out with a Hanoi water puppet dragon
and a Deborah Guertze print.)
Having been delayed by various unexpected events, I have a dire need to retreat from the field today and read and burnish the final manuscript of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage until my eyeballs are pickled! In the meantime, meet me
August 9, 2011
A response to Dave Bonta on poetic form
Photo by Robin Rudd: The Throne of Psyche, 2011.
A reply to Notes on poetic form at Via Negativa
Dear Dave,
I'd say that you are continually finding the forms that suit you, as am I. I like the way you work, and I don't think that you are on a plateau but are moving on and searching, as you should be.
But to say that does not mean that my use of more or less "set" forms is confining or
A reply to Notes on poetic form at Via Negativa
Dear Dave,
I'd say that you are continually finding the forms that suit you, as am I. I like the way you work, and I don't think that you are on a plateau but are moving on and searching, as you should be.
But to say that does not mean that my use of more or less "set" forms is confining or
August 8, 2011
Railroad days: A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
Photo by Nate Miller
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
--Theodor Adorno
Normality is death.
--Theodor Adorno
Clare Dudman reminded me of Adorno in a comment, and how now and then it flits through my head that I really must read him. I'm always seeing quotes from him and thinking that I should. But not today. Today and tomorrow
Photo by Nate Miller
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
--Theodor Adorno
Normality is death.
--Theodor Adorno
Clare Dudman reminded me of Adorno in a comment, and how now and then it flits through my head that I really must read him. I'm always seeing quotes from him and thinking that I should. But not today. Today and tomorrow
August 6, 2011
Ecclesiastical embroidery samplers by Karin Svahn
Sometimes you are surprised to find evidence of someone you know in unexpected places. It's an odd sensation, the pleasure a little like meeting a friend unexpectedly. I had a longish ferrywoman's stint yesterday, picking up my son at Beaver Cross Camp, and made a discovery.
The camp used to be on the shores of Lake Otsego and only twelve minutes away from home. The cabins clustered close to
The camp used to be on the shores of Lake Otsego and only twelve minutes away from home. The cabins clustered close to
August 4, 2011
Suzannah Smith Miles, "August Light"
Here's a lovely guest post by South Carolina writer and historian, Suzannah Smith Miles, from Charleston, South Carolina and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Suzannah is known for both her books and magazine work on North and South Carolina history, and she writes regularly for Charleston Magazine and WNC (Western North Carolina) Magazine out of Asheville. Known for presenting history in a light
