Directions to the Palace: Seek out Giacometti’s “The Palace at 4 a.m.” Go back precisely two hours. See towers and curtain walls of matchsticks, marble, marbles, light, cloud at stasis. Walk in. The beggar queen is dreaming on her throne of words… Welcome. You have arrived at the web home of Marly Youmans, maker of novels, poetry collections, and stories, as well as the occasional fantasy for younger readers.
Elegies for the Water (here) sold more than a thousand copies in its first month. That's doing wonderfully well for a book of poems. Confetti, Phil! Next up: pieces on the poems of Rosanne Coggeshall, on Howard Bahr, and on writing advice.
It is very, very good for a book of poems, 2009 A. D.!
And I should say that I'll probably be delayed on the next few posts due to travels through the thorny parts of life. It's not like a book; we don't get to skim.
Goodness. I love your incrdible and totally individual " Use Of Language" ( as "They" say in schools...) Who else says something like your final lines in this post...! Marvellous.
I wasn't ignoring you--just away to south Georgia. I might've been fibbing in this little note. Might post some pictures of my maternal family home next.
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wow that is impressive
That must be some kind of record for the US!
It is very, very good for a book of poems, 2009 A. D.!
And I should say that I'll probably be delayed on the next few posts due to travels through the thorny parts of life. It's not like a book; we don't get to skim.
Goodness.
I love your incrdible and totally individual " Use Of Language" ( as "They" say in schools...)
Who else says something like your final lines in this post...! Marvellous.
Hey there, Jan-across-the-water--
I wasn't ignoring you--just away to south Georgia. I might've been fibbing in this little note. Might post some pictures of my maternal family home next.
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