Marly Youmans's Blog, page 16
April 10, 2019
Gone to Carolina
Where? I've been away in the North Carolina mountains for more than a month: hiking on private (Dan Pitillo's flower trails are wondrous) and public lands; hunting for Oconee bells and spring beauty and trout lilies, etc.; helping my mother with various needs; celebrating my mother's 90th birthday (along with more family in Cullowhee for a week); thrifting; eating at Slabtown (best pizza in
February 27, 2019
2 forthcoming books
New page about a 2019 poetry collection and a 2020 novel here.
February 15, 2019
Red surprise--
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*Take a look at the Sneak peek! from Phoenicia... right here.Art?Clive Hicks-Jenkins.*
*Take a look at the Sneak peek! from Phoenicia... right here.Art?Clive Hicks-Jenkins.*
February 14, 2019
Be mine, Valentine--
Happy St. Valentine's Day
Here's a lovely toy theatre with candy and hearts from Clive Hicks-Jenkins, produced by the famous Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop. (Just watch out for the witch!)
Rollipoke subscribers will get a special Valentine from me with secret Clive art today. Subscribers, enjoy! If you want to be a Rollipoker, go here: https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/201...
Here's a lovely toy theatre with candy and hearts from Clive Hicks-Jenkins, produced by the famous Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop. (Just watch out for the witch!)
Rollipoke subscribers will get a special Valentine from me with secret Clive art today. Subscribers, enjoy! If you want to be a Rollipoker, go here: https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/201...
February 13, 2019
Sundry on Wednesday
Cooperstown arts news:
Ashley Norwood Cooper's solo show is still up.
New York City friends, please go...
The Likes of Usat First Street Gallery
through 23 February 2019
526 West 26th Street, Suite 209
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 646-336-8053
What a rugged two weeks it has been! The weather was a little too focused on snow and ice. The sweet, tiny Puffcat died. The long author questionnaire was
Ashley Norwood Cooper's solo show is still up.
New York City friends, please go...
The Likes of Usat First Street Gallery
through 23 February 2019
526 West 26th Street, Suite 209
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 646-336-8053
What a rugged two weeks it has been! The weather was a little too focused on snow and ice. The sweet, tiny Puffcat died. The long author questionnaire was
February 9, 2019
A merchant, a stylite, and a maiden walk into a bar--
Two of my new poems are up at Mezzo Cammin here. Snips with title and first two lines:
The Merchant and the Stylite
Whether he was comely, I cannot say,
But he was born in Sis, Cilicia;
The Maiden-saint of France
While still a child I was a thing men fear,
The fire-struck one who has the ears to hear
I'm looking forward to reading the issue after I finish
The Merchant and the Stylite
Whether he was comely, I cannot say,
But he was born in Sis, Cilicia;
The Maiden-saint of France
While still a child I was a thing men fear,
The fire-struck one who has the ears to hear
I'm looking forward to reading the issue after I finish
February 5, 2019
The Disfiguration of Nature
My friend James Krueger has a new book, The Disfiguration of Nature--I have a copy but have not read it yet and will not read anything until I finish polishing my novel this week. Aiiee! But I want to give it a preliminary shout-out now.
The Disfiguration of Nature looks to have a strong thesis that readers will find challenging, whether they love or hate it. And I expect the book will find
The Disfiguration of Nature looks to have a strong thesis that readers will find challenging, whether they love or hate it. And I expect the book will find
January 30, 2019
Put on your scholar hats, please!
Anonymous portrait of a scholar or preacher
1529, public domain Wikimedia
Walters Art Museum
QUESTION:
Working on a novel set some centuries ago, and I'm trying to figure out if I made these lines up in imitation of certain seventeenth-century poets (who? Butler?), or whether it is, indeed, a seventeenth-century couplet, maybe something like the tetrameter Hudibras:
To find if woman owns a
1529, public domain Wikimedia
Walters Art Museum
QUESTION:
Working on a novel set some centuries ago, and I'm trying to figure out if I made these lines up in imitation of certain seventeenth-century poets (who? Butler?), or whether it is, indeed, a seventeenth-century couplet, maybe something like the tetrameter Hudibras:
To find if woman owns a
January 16, 2019
Not lolling...
I'm not being a lagarag, to pilfer an old East Anglian word... Still working on a deadline, but I'll be back soon.
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Faulkner on writing, though the words apply to many other activities: "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
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Image:
Gerard Terborch
Dutch
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Faulkner on writing, though the words apply to many other activities: "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
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Image:
Gerard Terborch
Dutch
Faulkner on writing, though the words apply to many other...
Faulkner on writing, though the words apply to many other activities: "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
