Marly Youmans's Blog, page 58
August 20, 2014
Diminishing language and culture
Clive Hicks-Jenkins vignette for Glimmerglass
No one in the English speaking world can be considered literate without a basic knowledge of the Bible. E. D. Hirsch, Jr., James Trefil, Joseph Kett, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Houghton Mifflin, 1993)
Late night and early morning exchange...
Me: I would say that if you can read Shakespeare, well, then you can read anything else in the
No one in the English speaking world can be considered literate without a basic knowledge of the Bible. E. D. Hirsch, Jr., James Trefil, Joseph Kett, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Houghton Mifflin, 1993)
Late night and early morning exchange...
Me: I would say that if you can read Shakespeare, well, then you can read anything else in the
August 19, 2014
Wordsmith, rest in peace--
James Foley, truth-teller, wordsmith
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Beautiful, sensitive face photographed by Steven Senne/AP
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Remembering Daniel Pearl
and all those held by ISIS and others.
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"We ask for your prayers for Jim and his family." GlobalPost
Addendum: in his own words
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The Committee to Protect Journalists estimates
that there are about 20 journalists missing in Syria,
many of them held by ISIS.
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Beautiful, sensitive face photographed by Steven Senne/AP
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Remembering Daniel Pearl
and all those held by ISIS and others.
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"We ask for your prayers for Jim and his family." GlobalPost
Addendum: in his own words
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The Committee to Protect Journalists estimates
that there are about 20 journalists missing in Syria,
many of them held by ISIS.
"Authentic" language--
One of the many things that I need to tuck into my day is a going-over of this May's underlinings and scribblings in Peter Leithart's Deep Exegesis because on Thursday morning I am an invited guest at a regional priests-and-pastors study group--I think that it will be fascinating. Leithart's book focuses on exegesis of scripture but continually embraces poetry as well. And writers tend to be
August 18, 2014
Clive hangs a picture
Clive frames some Glimmerglass art.
And it's placed right next to books by friends...
More Ty Isaf pictures with Glimmerglass at the Artlog...
And it's placed right next to books by friends...
More Ty Isaf pictures with Glimmerglass at the Artlog...
August 17, 2014
Small literary adventure
Vintage Cooperstown postcards (ebay)showing Otsego Lake (Cooper's Glimmerglass)and Kingfisher Tower, commissionedby Edward Clark when times were hard and the local stonemasons were out of work.
Sleeping Lion Mountain (or maybe Sleeping Mountain Really-Big-Hill) has been rubbed away by the mist, and even the romantic Kingfisher Tower is barely visible in the lake, next to a softened but still
Sleeping Lion Mountain (or maybe Sleeping Mountain Really-Big-Hill) has been rubbed away by the mist, and even the romantic Kingfisher Tower is barely visible in the lake, next to a softened but still
August 14, 2014
Honey bee, bee honey--
Interior art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for Thaliad.
I strongly recommend Thaliad by Marly Youmans ... it is a remarkably innovative book in its structure, set in a post-(nuclear?) apocalyptic future, written in the form of an ancient epic, peppered with Greek and biblical references, steadily building towards redemption despite obstacles and hardships throughout.
Thank you, Forager Bee at The
I strongly recommend Thaliad by Marly Youmans ... it is a remarkably innovative book in its structure, set in a post-(nuclear?) apocalyptic future, written in the form of an ancient epic, peppered with Greek and biblical references, steadily building towards redemption despite obstacles and hardships throughout.
Thank you, Forager Bee at The
Just a skosh--
art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
The only thing worth doing in the realm of the arts is to run to the very edge of everything you have made until now and then throw yourself off, trusting that your feet will find new ground. And this is true no matter whether you are Isaac Bashevis Singer or Jane Austen or Joe or Jolene Nobody who wants to make something beautiful.
Okay, that's it. All I have to
The only thing worth doing in the realm of the arts is to run to the very edge of everything you have made until now and then throw yourself off, trusting that your feet will find new ground. And this is true no matter whether you are Isaac Bashevis Singer or Jane Austen or Joe or Jolene Nobody who wants to make something beautiful.
Okay, that's it. All I have to
August 13, 2014
More Glimmerglass news...
The book has arrived at the Mercer warehouse... If you would like to order Glimmerglass straight from the publisher, here's how to get free USPS shipping and a 20% discount via online order and coupon code or via phone call:
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Extravagantly, madly, flamboyantly reticent--
Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Design by Mary Frances Glover Burt
Once again regretting that my Southern ancestors passed down to me demands for (a.) superhero-level hyper-modesty and (b.) never asking anybody for anything because a person (oneself, in fact) might subtly or openly (or even parenthetically) bother another human being or sentient entity (anybody, anywhere, on this planet or any
Design by Mary Frances Glover Burt
Once again regretting that my Southern ancestors passed down to me demands for (a.) superhero-level hyper-modesty and (b.) never asking anybody for anything because a person (oneself, in fact) might subtly or openly (or even parenthetically) bother another human being or sentient entity (anybody, anywhere, on this planet or any
August 12, 2014
This is just to say: Balrog poetry
This is a Glimmerglass minotaur by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
It is not a Balrog.
'Twill serve.
What I learn from spammers: I, my friends, am evidently amazing, awesome, full of life and color. Ahem. And surely I will visit their amazing, awesome, full-of-life-and-color websites out of sheer vibrant love of their worldwide love for me. And then I will write about their for-sale products in glorious,
It is not a Balrog.
'Twill serve.
What I learn from spammers: I, my friends, am evidently amazing, awesome, full of life and color. Ahem. And surely I will visit their amazing, awesome, full-of-life-and-color websites out of sheer vibrant love of their worldwide love for me. And then I will write about their for-sale products in glorious,
