Marly Youmans's Blog, page 170
November 13, 2009
New books by friends, part 1: BOOKLIFE & me
Since flying from Siem Reap to Bangkok to Tokyo to D. C. to Albany, I have been roiled and clubbed and generally dragged in and out of sleep by raging jet lag. Twelve time zones appears to be too much for this body. Meanwhile the floor guys came and tore up multiple rotting floors in my 1808 house--antique larch and old-fashioned linseed-oil style linoleum going in--and computer and printer and
November 9, 2009
Back from Thailand and Cambodia...
Back from Thailand and Cambodia...
October 19, 2009
Aporia
The Palace is on hiatus until November 9th: then there will be news...November update: Just flew from Siem Reap, Cambodia to Bangkok to Tokyo to Washington D. C. to Albany. Yawn. I'll post on November 9th after I take my much-appreciated child-sitter to the airport!
The Palace is on hiatus until November 9th: then there wi...
The Palace is on hiatus until November 9th: then there will be news...
October 3, 2009
Mark this FLEA
The Flea Broadsheets Flea No. 3 (by Paul Stevens, that imaginative editor) is up--and floating in its tight belly are these:*Hydrangeas by Mark AllinsonSonnet by Mary Alexandra AgnerIconography by Maryann CorbettSaid Yeats's Bones to Hardy's Heart... by Ann DrysdaleA Centaur in His Dragon World by Richard EpsteinThe Way is Closed by Midge GoldbergRelationships by Bill GreenwellHerald by R. Nemo
September 25, 2009
LAST DRINK BIRD HEAD for charity
LAST DRINK BIRD HEADA DESCRIPTION PILLAGED FROM JEFF VANDERMEERWhat Is Last Drink Bird Head? That's the catalyst editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer provided to over 80 writers in creating this unique anthology, with all proceeds going to ProLiteracy.org. All each writer got was an email with "Last Drink Bird Head" in the subject line and the directions "Who or what is Last Drink Bird Head? Under 500
September 3, 2009
The Throne of Psyche
On Monday I learned that my next book--my eighth but only my second poetry book--will be The Throne of Psyche, a collection of sixty poems (Mercer University Press.) Public domain image: Psyche Opening the Door into Cupid's Garden by John William Waterhouse (1904)
August 27, 2009
New anthologies & Val/Orson special
* Postscripts 19: The PS Quarterly Anthology (P. S. Publishing) contains my story, "The Red King's Sleep." The publisher says that "this Postscripts anthology is probably the best yet, containing gripping, stylish stories by some of the finest genre writers around . . . Marly Youmans enters the world of Through the Looking Glass from a terrifying angle."Editorial - Nick GeversDaniel Abraham - '
August 3, 2009
"A link in the chain of artists"
"In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true." --Van GoghAlthough I have enjoyed letters by various writers and artists, it is Van Gogh's that I love best, and I have just realized that they are online, along with many images and other materials at http://www.vggallery.com/ . .
July 10, 2009
Transformation bookshops
http://www.miragebookmark.ch/most-int... no. 1: Now I may waste one of my precious wishes by wanting to go to Portugal and Brazil for the afternoon. Point no. 2: Note that the Borderlands Sphynx cat reveals a map to a labyrinth on its forehead (Photograph by massdistraction Flickr.com.) Point no. 3 Definition of disgrace: dis-grace, or turning an altar somewhere in the
