Marly Youmans's Blog, page 9

Dear Wikipedia, I object--

Among the many bothersome or dreadful things presenting themselves to my mind in 2020--global, national, and personal things--is the fact that Wikipedia still determines that I am a New Formalist. I noticed this claim some years ago. Perhaps many years ago. In fact, dear Wikipedia, I wrote you about this wee but annoying issue back in February of 2016.But having accidentally fallen once more into

Anders, Charis, Red King

Another "tiny" at North American Anglican: Anders, Young and OldAnd if you go here on the NAA site, you can take a look at more tinies and a few poems.  Thanks so much to Clinton Collister for requesting poetry and tinies! * * *Clips from new reviews of Charis in the World of Wonders:Photo by Paul DigbyA charming literary work that envelops the reader in the chaotic frontier life of Puritan

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

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

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

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

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

Go, little pandemic book!

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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

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

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