Marly Youmans's Blog, page 145
August 1, 2011
Tweaking the Romantics
The two photographs are courtesy of Sofie Laier Henrikson
of Copenhagen and sxc.hu. Shelley's body was burned on the shore
(quarantine laws) after he drowned.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
What a silly, Romantic thing to say! Just the sort of Shelleyesque thing that Shelley would go and say, don't you think? I suppose all poets have lived
of Copenhagen and sxc.hu. Shelley's body was burned on the shore
(quarantine laws) after he drowned.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
What a silly, Romantic thing to say! Just the sort of Shelleyesque thing that Shelley would go and say, don't you think? I suppose all poets have lived
July 31, 2011
Sunday, sundry--
Photographs by Mary Morris Youmans.
My Sunday afternoon shenanigans--
By the time you read this, I may well be tootling past the Saratoga battlefield, on my way to summer camp. The mother of three is a perennial ferrywoman... And the youngest child of three is busy, busy, busy. He has a lot of excess energy to discharge after a year of football, wrestling, hurdling, high jump, and relay.
Why
My Sunday afternoon shenanigans--
By the time you read this, I may well be tootling past the Saratoga battlefield, on my way to summer camp. The mother of three is a perennial ferrywoman... And the youngest child of three is busy, busy, busy. He has a lot of excess energy to discharge after a year of football, wrestling, hurdling, high jump, and relay.
Why
July 30, 2011
More "The Book of the Red King" poems
Two tales of the Fool, "The Yellow Day" and "The Silver Cord," are up at Lucid Rhythms, edited by poet and fiction writer David Landrum.
July 29, 2011
Dreaming, hand-in-hand with François Houtin
This little post mailed to the universe at large doesn't really need to be anything but an arrow pointing to François Houtin and Galleria del Leone. I'm not sure how I survived in the world so long without knowing his intricate etchings that have all the rightness of dreams and sometimes remind me of something he must have seen by looking through one of those fey stones with a hole worn through
July 27, 2011
Pilfered from facebook--Laura Murphy Frankstone & "The Throne of Psyche"
Illustrations in this post: a peek at Laura's paintings at her beautiful site, Laurelines. If you don't know it, you should! She is an artist who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (a place where I have lived three times in my life, and where my youngest child was born.) Oddly, I met her after I moved to Cooperstown, New York. Poet Jeffery Beam introduced me to her site years before we met.
Tracy Roberts does it again!
The illustration is Papa Gatto, "program spokescat,"
from Ruth Sanderson's book, Papa Gatto.
If you have a better memory than I do, you might remember that about a year ago I talked about one of the MFA students I worked with at Hollins while a writer-in-residence there. She won The Shirley Henn Award at The Francelia Butler conference at Hollins for a story, "Head-on," that we had gone
The illustration is Papa Gatto, "program spokescat,"
from Ruth Sanderson's book, Papa Gatto.
If you have a better memory than I do, you might remember that about a year ago I talked about one of the MFA students I worked with at Hollins while a writer-in-residence there. She won The Shirley Henn Award at The Francelia Butler conference at Hollins for a story, "Head-on," that we had gone
July 26, 2011
Marketing poetry books: helpful links
Here are the links promised in "The Peddler's Comedy, a post about doing events for The Throne of Psyche and discovering that I know nothing about the conjunction of selling and poetry. Hence, the digging-about for knowledge... If you desire the introduction and lots of sometimes-indignant comments, go there first!
Feel free to argue, object, or add a link of your own. Although I have rooted
Feel free to argue, object, or add a link of your own. Although I have rooted
July 25, 2011
Rattiness abounds
I am delaying the post with links promised yesterday until tomorrow because I must say that the ever-generous Dave Bonta with his sneaky little recorder has made me the Woodrat Podcast of today. You may scurry rat-like to Via Negativa and hear me and novelist Clare Dudman and Dave and rooks.
July 24, 2011
The Peddler's Comedy
Photograph credit for this little still life
with The Throne of Psyche
goes to Robin Rudd and her blog, Robin Has An Idea.
Tomorrow at 7 p.m.: Poetry marketing: helpful links
Lately I have come to realize exactly how hard it is to sell books of poetry in the U. S. of A. With my first book of poems, I was not able to go on the road for various personal reasons having to do with my husband's
with The Throne of Psyche
goes to Robin Rudd and her blog, Robin Has An Idea.
Tomorrow at 7 p.m.: Poetry marketing: helpful links
Lately I have come to realize exactly how hard it is to sell books of poetry in the U. S. of A. With my first book of poems, I was not able to go on the road for various personal reasons having to do with my husband's
July 23, 2011
Insomniac roundup
the cassandra pages
You may see another picture of me with Beth Adams and one of me signing the hardcover version of my new book, The Throne of Psyche, for her at the cassandra pages. And you can hear Beth muse about our visit and her home region and see images of the place as well. (If you are a Clive Hicks-Jenkins fan and look closely, you will see the two new books about him as well as his
You may see another picture of me with Beth Adams and one of me signing the hardcover version of my new book, The Throne of Psyche, for her at the cassandra pages. And you can hear Beth muse about our visit and her home region and see images of the place as well. (If you are a Clive Hicks-Jenkins fan and look closely, you will see the two new books about him as well as his
