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February 19, 2013
Dream words
Rebecca Beatrice Miller,
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One of my favorite things is to write or read in a dream, close enough to the edge of waking to remember the whole or part when I wake. Whole chapters in a book I was working on have come to me in that pleasant, rich state.
Often a poem in a dream seems to me of a massively different order than a day-poem, and I have sometimes wakened in tears
quazdraws.tumblr.com
One of my favorite things is to write or read in a dream, close enough to the edge of waking to remember the whole or part when I wake. Whole chapters in a book I was working on have come to me in that pleasant, rich state.
Often a poem in a dream seems to me of a massively different order than a day-poem, and I have sometimes wakened in tears
February 18, 2013
Dale Favier (re)reads Thaliad
I'm always interested when poet Dale Favier a.k.a. Mole posts on books because he is meditative and his thoughts shoot off in interesting, often curious directions. He has begun what appears to be a series of posts on Thaliad--as he did, earlier, on A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage. (The easiest way to read all his Orphanage comments at once may be to go to Amazon, where they are gathered
February 17, 2013
Paperback coming, hardcover going--
The hardcover run of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage is almost out of print, and soon the paperback will spring into the world. If you want a hardcover, time's ticking toward the midnight hour.
Books and Culture Magazine's Favorite Books of 2012
Critic D. G. Myer's Best Books of 2012
excerpt, ABOUT.COM CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
It is seldom that a novel from a small university press
Books and Culture Magazine's Favorite Books of 2012
Critic D. G. Myer's Best Books of 2012
excerpt, ABOUT.COM CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
It is seldom that a novel from a small university press
February 16, 2013
"Childe Phoenix" again--
Illustration by Galen Dara
SF Signal has reviewed Lightspeed 33. Here's a consideration of my story from that issue. You may read the entire review here.
“Prolegomenon to the Adventures of Chílde Phoenix” by Marly Youmans
A coming of age story, a metamorphosis, the remembrances of a young boy now deemed a man wrapped in the imagery of familiar childhood folklore and fairy tales.
SF Signal has reviewed Lightspeed 33. Here's a consideration of my story from that issue. You may read the entire review here.
“Prolegomenon to the Adventures of Chílde Phoenix” by Marly Youmans
A coming of age story, a metamorphosis, the remembrances of a young boy now deemed a man wrapped in the imagery of familiar childhood folklore and fairy tales.
February 15, 2013
Epic and epic hair!
An epic adventure and adventures in epic hair
Thaliad
Here's link to a qarrtsiluni podcast of a fragment of that wild adventure in verse, Thaliad--one in which the children make an early, terrible mistake that colors the rest of their lives. You can also find pieces of the poem at Mezzo Cammin (scroll down) and Scribd.
Seni Crines
If you have an interest in ancient art, you will be
Thaliad
Here's link to a qarrtsiluni podcast of a fragment of that wild adventure in verse, Thaliad--one in which the children make an early, terrible mistake that colors the rest of their lives. You can also find pieces of the poem at Mezzo Cammin (scroll down) and Scribd.
Seni Crines
If you have an interest in ancient art, you will be
February 14, 2013
St. Valentine's Day / Dulac, Yeats / Thaliad
Edmund Dulac, from Gods and Mortals in Love
Persephone accosted by Hades,
soon to be wrenched from the world of spring.
A Valentine for snowy climes
longing for the return of spring to the earth.
See more of this series at artpassions.net.
Edmund Dulac, Yeats, Valentine's Day
I picked a Dulac image for Valentine's Day, as I have been realizing how close he was to Yeats at various times--
Persephone accosted by Hades,
soon to be wrenched from the world of spring.
A Valentine for snowy climes
longing for the return of spring to the earth.
See more of this series at artpassions.net.
Edmund Dulac, Yeats, Valentine's Day
I picked a Dulac image for Valentine's Day, as I have been realizing how close he was to Yeats at various times--
February 13, 2013
Thaliad bookplate--
Update on the Thaliad bookplate: Clive has not had time to print the plate as yet, though the plate is complete, so those of you who ordered early will have to wait a little longer. He is involved in a time-consuming theatrical project with elaborate maquettes so will have to wait to pull the prints until he has time. Then he will need to mail them to Montreal, and Phoenicia Publishing will then
Ashes to ashes
Flannery O' Connor meant a great deal to me as a young woman, and probably some day I will have to go back to her. The only book of hers I've reread in the past decade is her wondrous book of essays, Mystery and Manners. Here are some quotes from it in honor of Ash Wednesday.
The Regional Writer: When Walker Percy won the National Book Award, newsmen asked him why there were so many good
The Regional Writer: When Walker Percy won the National Book Award, newsmen asked him why there were so many good
February 12, 2013
Reading and dreaming by Glimmerglass
The Feckless Marketer
I become one of MaryBoxley Bullington's
exuberant people...
Shakespeare and Sendak
Here's a clip from Stephen Greenblatt's lovely New York Times article on Shakespeare and Sendak:
But it is not in the early comedies nor in the great middle tragedies that I feel the most intimate connection between Shakespeare’s work and Sendak’s sensibility: it is in those strange late
I become one of MaryBoxley Bullington's
exuberant people...
Shakespeare and Sendak
Here's a clip from Stephen Greenblatt's lovely New York Times article on Shakespeare and Sendak:
But it is not in the early comedies nor in the great middle tragedies that I feel the most intimate connection between Shakespeare’s work and Sendak’s sensibility: it is in those strange late
February 10, 2013
Northern Lights
Northern Lights x 2
Here's a new digital picture by my daughter Rebecca, who finished up a second year in filmmaking at Bard College and is soon going off to The Center for Cartoon Studies. Northern Lights. See more here. To go with it, here's a poem of mine (published last April) that has to do with the northern lights. There's a podcast of my reading of the poem as well.
He lives in a
Here's a new digital picture by my daughter Rebecca, who finished up a second year in filmmaking at Bard College and is soon going off to The Center for Cartoon Studies. Northern Lights. See more here. To go with it, here's a poem of mine (published last April) that has to do with the northern lights. There's a podcast of my reading of the poem as well.
He lives in a
