Marly Youmans's Blog, page 89
May 4, 2013
Master Jug and Lady Candlestick
The Blue Jug (2006) by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
from Marly Youmans, The Foliate Head (UK: Stanza Press, 2012),
and also anthologized in The Book of Ystwyth: six poets on the art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Wales/US: Grey Mare Press and Carolina Wren Press, 2010)
Master Jug and Lady Candle Stick
With hands on hips and foliate attire,
The candlestick is all umbrageousness,
A shady lady who has
from Marly Youmans, The Foliate Head (UK: Stanza Press, 2012),
and also anthologized in The Book of Ystwyth: six poets on the art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Wales/US: Grey Mare Press and Carolina Wren Press, 2010)
Master Jug and Lady Candle Stick
With hands on hips and foliate attire,
The candlestick is all umbrageousness,
A shady lady who has
Dear diary,
One of many collage decorations for Thaliad by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Being a post for inquisitive souls eager to know the secrets of a writer's Saturday...
Rose up entirely too early in order to let out Susquehanna the dog, who was the mighty source of a river of barks. So I stayed up and made dozens of cookies for the track meet sale.
On the agenda for this bright Saturday: choir practice;
Being a post for inquisitive souls eager to know the secrets of a writer's Saturday...
Rose up entirely too early in order to let out Susquehanna the dog, who was the mighty source of a river of barks. So I stayed up and made dozens of cookies for the track meet sale.
On the agenda for this bright Saturday: choir practice;
May 3, 2013
The Seven Deadly Sins » (trailer) by Antoine Roegiers, 2011
Marvelous share from youtube. Click bottom right for large screen view.
Antoine Roegiers animates Breughel drawings (1559) of the seven deadly sins.
See the Antoine Roegiers website
Storyboard and details here
Antoine Roegiers animates Breughel drawings (1559) of the seven deadly sins.
See the Antoine Roegiers website
Storyboard and details here
for @DeathZen of the Twitterlands--
Message sent to Inogolo:
Name: Youmans
Pronunciation: as Yeomans: Yo-munz (rhymes with "no puns")
A certain party of four brothers who came to this counry before the Revolution were all "Yeomans." As spelling reform did not yet exist, their descendants tended to spell their names in various ways at various times--Yeomans, Yeamans, Youmans. However, the pronunciation often remained the same for
Name: Youmans
Pronunciation: as Yeomans: Yo-munz (rhymes with "no puns")
A certain party of four brothers who came to this counry before the Revolution were all "Yeomans." As spelling reform did not yet exist, their descendants tended to spell their names in various ways at various times--Yeomans, Yeamans, Youmans. However, the pronunciation often remained the same for
The uncanny ordinary--
Life, what a strange substance, and all woven on the loom of time, which many say does not exist . . .
Take tomorrow, as that should be pleasant enough, being a Saturday. In the morning, be awakened entirely too early by small, demanding animals. That's a constant. Feel cotton-headed and dense. Drink tea and stare at the birds. Bake for the track meet sale later in the day. Tumble three children
Take tomorrow, as that should be pleasant enough, being a Saturday. In the morning, be awakened entirely too early by small, demanding animals. That's a constant. Feel cotton-headed and dense. Drink tea and stare at the birds. Bake for the track meet sale later in the day. Tumble three children
May 2, 2013
Wikipedia's woman-wrangle
Credit to Rutgers art history major Nicole of Bendomolina.
John Singer Sargent, "Apollo and the Muses," Boston MFA
The ongoing Wikipedia flap over the removal of women from "American novelists" and their placement in "American women novelists" continues. Here's a pretty good summation from The New York Review of Books. Out of curiosity I have peeked from time to time; yes, I was plunked into
John Singer Sargent, "Apollo and the Muses," Boston MFA
The ongoing Wikipedia flap over the removal of women from "American novelists" and their placement in "American women novelists" continues. Here's a pretty good summation from The New York Review of Books. Out of curiosity I have peeked from time to time; yes, I was plunked into
May 1, 2013
The Fool at Pirene's Fountain
Morgan-Greet Tarot fool card
Two fool poems from The Book of the Red King are online at Pirene's Fountain. Here's a nibble from each. You may have the whole meal here.
WATER BURIAL OF THE FOOL
The water let him down. It took him in.
The water waved his hair as if with love;
THE FOOL IS SEALED IN DARK
The light is a moth light,
The sky a raven’s wing—
Two fool poems from The Book of the Red King are online at Pirene's Fountain. Here's a nibble from each. You may have the whole meal here.
WATER BURIAL OF THE FOOL
The water let him down. It took him in.
The water waved his hair as if with love;
THE FOOL IS SEALED IN DARK
The light is a moth light,
The sky a raven’s wing—
April 30, 2013
Dream schooling
Here's Auden by way of Alan Jacobs. It has been a very long time since I read The Dyer's Hand, and this excerpt is wonderful and rather impossible, given how our schools are structured. I like the focus on memorization, language, and finding a job that has little to do with writing. And I might just consider what my dream schooling would be, given the constraints of current education and times.
April 28, 2013
poet Dick Jones on Thaliad
Pilfered from Dick Jones' facebook page...
Thanks to him! Dick is author of Ancient Lights, also from Phoenicia.
Phoenicia Publishing's sale is still on through poetry month.
Thanks to him! Dick is author of Ancient Lights, also from Phoenicia.
Phoenicia Publishing's sale is still on through poetry month.
April 27, 2013
Tiny memory
In Siem Reap, tried to eat a small Cambodian elephant, thinking it chocolate. A hard, dark wood, unkind to teeth.
