Marly Youmans's Blog, page 76

The in-print shelf--

I'll be back with at least one more post about friends with Etsy shops, since it's a time of year when friends in the arts could use some Lady Word of Mouth help.  And I may work on a list of friends' in-print books for Christmas shopping, if enough people want to be on such a list! In the meantime I'm going to post some information about my own books.

Four of my books are currently in print.

Friends with Etsy shops, 1

As I have a number of friends with Etsy shops, and many people are shopping for Christmas gifts, I have decided to do a few posts featuring Etsy. Here is the first.



Rustic Beaded Earrings - Cthulhu Earrings
Bead and metal assemblage, millefiori 
polymer clay, vintage black lace scraps, 
and oxidized Hoops



Richelle Hawks at Shipwreck Dandy for one-of-a-kind necklaces and earrings
Current

Catherwood, again...

Photograph by Paul Digby: seedhead of a hearts a-bustin',taken on my mother's mountaintop in Cullowhee, NC, August 2013.

So glad that Sienna Latham followed me on twitter today and left me a link to her lovely, long review of Catherwood.  One of the magic things about the internet is that a mid-list book once considered out of print and "done" keeps getting attention, almost twenty years after

a commonplace from eastrod

I've already noted this on twitter and facebook, so I suppose it's already an old tale, given the scorching storytelling pace of the internet, but there's an interesting new books blog underway from one R. T., someone I encountered first on critic D. G. Myers's book blog, and later via novelist Scott G. F. Bailey and . . . here. He is especially keen on Flannery O'Connor, but seems to have a

Aphoristic morning

Makoto Fujimura's Dark Shalom, 2012


This morning I feel like bundling all my thoughts into tiny packages--perhaps I shall place them under a metaphysical tree, and hope they are not simply waste of breath! Aphorism too often becomes Polonial, and adds nothing to the accumulated thoughts of the world. Perhaps it is now impossible to add an aphorism that has not been conveyed already in other

Leaving the realm called Melancholia

One of many images made
by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
for The Foliate Head

Perhaps it was that big birthday number, glimmering in the near distance, but not long ago I went through a melancholy patch where I wondered whether, in fact, I had done everything wrong. (Oh, I know that I've done plenty that was wrong in ignorance or insensibility. And hope I know better now.) But I meant the whole shape of

Stray thoughts on Mervyn Peake

To go down one's own proper path in words or images is sometimes to forego wide popularity and warm acceptance, and one must be very determined not to be swayed by the desires and would-be directions of other people. If this is one's call, well, one must tread that weird, singular path or else make a botch of what one is given to do. Yet it was hard for artist and writer Mervyn Peake to have

Thanks--

Note: reading at the Bright Hill Center celebration in Treadwell, 2-3ish today. Full-length reading there in 2014.

Thank you for the deluge of birthday wishes on facebook and elsewhere, and here's another post about A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage by novelist Scott G. F. Bailey.

Here are a few clips to entice:

A couple of days ago I finished Marly Youmans' beautiful 2012 novel A

六十. lok-sat. soixante. LX. шестьдесят. 60.

credit: Rebecca Beatrice Miller, 8/2013

Conflagration cake
With battalions of candles
Frizzling the icing.

Trala!

I started celebrating yesterday with a studio visit with Ashley Cooper and then lunch. So glad to see her new work . . . And for dinner my husband made a grand feast for friends, and afterward painter and soprano Yolanda Sharpe sang Haydn and Handel arias for us. Lovely.

Of

Bright Hill frolics

The day after my (gigantic) birthday and conflagration of candles, I'm going off to the Bright Hill Center in Treadwell, New York to meet writers and readers and read for a few minutes in celebration of the center:

Twenty-one years of readings, workshops, art exhibits and more will be celebrated Saturday as Bright Hill Center marks its anniversary with an open house and marathon reading.