Marly Youmans's Blog, page 9
July 24, 2020
The Charis-and-poems news...
Once again, I'm guilty of being lively on twitter and facebook but ignoring the blog! Hope all you passers-by have remained healthy and sane in the midst of topping chaos. A few new notables are below:
I've updated the Charis in the World of Wonders page with some new comments and review clips. A review from novelist H. S. Cross is forthcoming, and another from Robbi Nester, as well as an
I've updated the Charis in the World of Wonders page with some new comments and review clips. A review from novelist H. S. Cross is forthcoming, and another from Robbi Nester, as well as an
July 6, 2020
If you missed our video...
If you were cast into woe by missing the Greer - Thomas - Youmans reading, here it is. I couldn't get youtube to accept an image of all three of us; we are too complex for youtube, it seems! So apologies that it's just my cover as thumbnail.
Jane Greer - Love like a Conflagration
Sally Thomas - Motherland
Marly Youmans - Charis in the World of Wonders
12 June 2020
via Zoom
Jane Greer - Love like a Conflagration
Sally Thomas - Motherland
Marly Youmans - Charis in the World of Wonders
12 June 2020
via Zoom
July 3, 2020
Reviews and a thorn tree
A new poem just out at North American Anglican
Godric of Finchale as a Thorn Tree
Homage to Frederick Buechner
Fly HERE to read the poem.
Snitching a twitter-comment from poet Lisa McCabe @LAHMCCABE:
Replying to @NorthAmAnglican and @marlyyoumans - thank you for writing this beautiful poem. The dedication is perfect.
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A new review of Glimmerglass at Brandywine Books
Godric of Finchale as a Thorn Tree
Homage to Frederick Buechner
Fly HERE to read the poem.
Snitching a twitter-comment from poet Lisa McCabe @LAHMCCABE:
Replying to @NorthAmAnglican and @marlyyoumans - thank you for writing this beautiful poem. The dedication is perfect.
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A new review of Glimmerglass at Brandywine Books
June 16, 2020
Charis and Kristin at Wuthering Expectations
Sigrid Undset's "The Wife" (1921) and @marlyyoumans's "Charis in the World of Wonders" (2020), novels with surprising similarities, combined into one blog post.https://t.co/9rTmaJzWIH
"His breath ruttled as he blew outward and sent the plants to trembling."
— Amateur Reader (Tom) (@AmateurReader) June 16, 2020
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I am so pleased that two of my books have been discussed at the stellar
"His breath ruttled as he blew outward and sent the plants to trembling."
— Amateur Reader (Tom) (@AmateurReader) June 16, 2020
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I am so pleased that two of my books have been discussed at the stellar
June 13, 2020
Novelist Eugene Garber on The Book of the Red King
Illumination by Clive Hicks-JenkinsPb available via indies, Amazon etc.Hc & pb available via Phoenicia Publishing
I have read The Book of the Red King. It is an extraordinary work. It put me in mind of how much I enjoyed Yeats’s early fairyland poems. The poems remain steadfastly otherworldly. They transport the reader to an existence apart. I’m reminded of James’s definition of a romance
I have read The Book of the Red King. It is an extraordinary work. It put me in mind of how much I enjoyed Yeats’s early fairyland poems. The poems remain steadfastly otherworldly. They transport the reader to an existence apart. I’m reminded of James’s definition of a romance
June 9, 2020
Go, little pandemic book!
1.
Hurrah for reviews!
At The Wine-Dark Sea, Melanie Bettinelli has published a long, thoughtful review of Charis in the World of Wonders that dives into wonders, grace, character oppositions (sometimes as structure), transcendentals, freedom, language, narrative mode, variation in "Puritan" thought among late seventeenth-century characters, the wilderness, and beauty. I'm glad that she
Hurrah for reviews!
At The Wine-Dark Sea, Melanie Bettinelli has published a long, thoughtful review of Charis in the World of Wonders that dives into wonders, grace, character oppositions (sometimes as structure), transcendentals, freedom, language, narrative mode, variation in "Puritan" thought among late seventeenth-century characters, the wilderness, and beauty. I'm glad that she
June 5, 2020
Clive in the mood for Thaliad
Art by Clive Hicks-JenkinsSee Clive's posts on Thaliad hereBook design by Elizabeth AdamsAvailablein pb via indies, Bookshop, Amazon, etc.,and in both hc/pb from Phoenicia Publishing
Clive, this morning in Wales: 'Ark', a chapter heading from Marly Youman's poem/novel, 'Thaliad'. I set out on my 'Thaliad' adventure with some trepidation, wary of its author's description in several e-mails of
Clive, this morning in Wales: 'Ark', a chapter heading from Marly Youman's poem/novel, 'Thaliad'. I set out on my 'Thaliad' adventure with some trepidation, wary of its author's description in several e-mails of
May 30, 2020
ZOOMFEST!
You are invited
to a
Pandemic Book Party
Jane Greer, Sally Thomas, Marly Youmans
reading from their new books:
two poetry collections and a novel.
Live
on
Friday, June 12
North America:
3:00 Eastern,
2:00 Central,
1:00 Mountain,
noon Pacific.
World time zone converter HERE.
Register in advance
HERE.
Jane Greer,
Love Like a Conflagration
Jane Greer
to a
Pandemic Book Party
Jane Greer, Sally Thomas, Marly Youmans
reading from their new books:
two poetry collections and a novel.
Live
on
Friday, June 12
North America:
3:00 Eastern,
2:00 Central,
1:00 Mountain,
noon Pacific.
World time zone converter HERE.
Register in advance
HERE.
Jane Greer,
Love Like a Conflagration
Jane Greer
May 29, 2020
On traveling in the past: Charis in the World of Wonders
One of the demands of writing a novel set in the past is that a writer not put people and thoughts of his or her own day into fancy dress. Not give us woke people in linsey-woolsey. Not present people with our own concerns about climate (well, maybe if it's a Ruskin--so prescient!) or our own beliefs about how a woman may be heroic or our own attitudes toward childbirth or child-rearing or
May 23, 2020
Charis reviews, new poems, and more
Charis in the World of Wonders reviews
Greg Langley, The Baton Rouge Advocate:
Young heroine in 'Charis' will captivate readers
23 May 2020
Ben Steelman, The Wilmington StarNews:
In NC writer’s new novel, the woods are dark, deep and dangerous
16 May 2020
Here's a blog review by Cat Hodge
at Darwin Catholic
And I'm pleased to see Amazon reviews
by writers and others...
Greg Langley, The Baton Rouge Advocate:
Young heroine in 'Charis' will captivate readers
23 May 2020
Ben Steelman, The Wilmington StarNews:
In NC writer’s new novel, the woods are dark, deep and dangerous
16 May 2020
Here's a blog review by Cat Hodge
at Darwin Catholic
And I'm pleased to see Amazon reviews
by writers and others...
