tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post3443461664858973133..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Ekphrasis + SFWA Glory + Reply to ZephyrMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-45789241169011879942007-04-10T22:57:00.000-04:002007-04-10T22:57:00.000-04:00I love these poems. What great suggestions in thi...I love these poems. What great suggestions in this thread.<BR/><A HREF="http://www.nnquigon.info/mainsitemap.php" REL="nofollow">Matt</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-89569480734251032642007-04-05T09:14:00.000-04:002007-04-05T09:14:00.000-04:00Annie,Thanks for popping over to Qarrtsiluni... Su...Annie,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for popping over to Qarrtsiluni... <BR/><BR/>Susanna,<BR/><BR/>Hey, it just ain't Easter till it's Easter. But thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-51136825613991897522007-04-05T01:28:00.000-04:002007-04-05T01:28:00.000-04:00I left you an easter egg on my site. Its not great...I left you an easter egg on my site. Its not great but an easter egg all the same.Susannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04419802372495554966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-72633640512527389272007-04-04T16:23:00.000-04:002007-04-04T16:23:00.000-04:00I'm glad I stopped by for an update. The joint eff...I'm glad I stopped by for an update. The joint effort by you and Laura presented at that link is a good place to stop and breathe today. :)anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08324828987699178581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-33743451138959978012007-04-04T13:31:00.000-04:002007-04-04T13:31:00.000-04:00Hope may be vain! Antibiotics appear on the way.Th...Hope may be vain! Antibiotics appear on the way.<BR/><BR/>Thank you. I appreciate that little vote of not-wombat confidence.<BR/><BR/>Now, back to my butlerless butler's pantry, where I am busily cleaning and dreaming.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-88986793338406401602007-04-04T12:37:00.000-04:002007-04-04T12:37:00.000-04:00I hope the sick kid does not have whooping cough e...I hope the sick kid does not have whooping cough either. That would NOT be good. <BR/><BR/>Also I cannot imagine you as president of the wombats. You don't look or act much like a wombat to me. :)blog queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17229423128584570391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-11715157231833425102007-04-04T11:12:00.000-04:002007-04-04T11:12:00.000-04:00mb,Well, I do think that Kensett, say, is not quit...mb,<BR/><BR/>Well, I do think that Kensett, say, is not quite as distinct from his near cousins in the art--at least to me--than Turner and Friedrich, who are both unmistakable artists. <BR/><BR/>Yes,I have not memorized enough! And will do more. I admire Gioia's ability to do a whole reading of his own and other people's poems without looking a the page.<BR/><BR/>Happy birthday, all ye Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-67149518499725240482007-04-04T10:57:00.000-04:002007-04-04T10:57:00.000-04:00As usual, Marly, you got me thinking. I've been po...As usual, Marly, you got me thinking. I've been pondering why I don't respond to the Hudson River School luminism in the same way as Turner or even Friedrich. I think it has to do with my sense of expressiveness and emotion that appears in a work. Gesture over detail maybe? And the abstraction?<BR/><BR/>Back to Zephyr's question, which made me realize I have committed relatively few poems to MBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515233228776181123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-33220183001041598962007-04-04T08:58:00.000-04:002007-04-04T08:58:00.000-04:00Happy Birthday, Robert!We are due for snow tonight...Happy Birthday, Robert!<BR/><BR/>We are due for snow tonight, tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, and even Easter Sunday. So they say, those weathermen of ours. Right now it looks like the deluge--rain on the snow heaps--but the temperature is due for a dropping. Ah well, I've put up with big snows in May here, so it's hopeless to complain.<BR/><BR/>One hour a day is quite sensible! But time moves fasterMarly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-69683121252435583902007-04-04T05:02:00.000-04:002007-04-04T05:02:00.000-04:00Just started to read your SWFA again, I can't keep...Just started to read your SWFA again, I can't keep up! 1st April was ages ago and I have just arrived!!<BR/><BR/>Wombats are a rather nasty bit of military kit that you shouldn’t stand behind! (Like horses; can be dangerous at both ends!). I read things upside down, back to front and recognise words that aren’t there. Trying to remember how to spell soupçon is time consuming too, not in Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00533678970029159873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-84183615009678053842007-04-03T19:49:00.000-04:002007-04-03T19:49:00.000-04:00Yes, it is an interesting word, though I'm notsure...Yes, it is an interesting word, though I'm notsure how it should sound. Perhaps if I sit in the darkness and wait, that will come to me...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-876356892405644052007-04-03T13:06:00.000-04:002007-04-03T13:06:00.000-04:00Congratulations to you both!and i have to say i lo...Congratulations to you both!<BR/>and i have to say i love learning this new word<BR/>QarrtsiluniAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-83791259427537329792007-04-03T10:26:00.000-04:002007-04-03T10:26:00.000-04:00Safe driving--I don't like that route much.Yes, it...Safe driving--I don't like that route much.<BR/><BR/>Yes, it is!<BR/><BR/>Perhaps a mighty and rich poetry-and-pictures fan will want to do a lavish book of us. Wouldn't that be marvelous? Of course, it's exactly the sort of thing publishers don't often do.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-90220195743787292882007-04-03T10:20:00.000-04:002007-04-03T10:20:00.000-04:00Marly, am rushing off to Charlotte to see my mothe...Marly, am rushing off to Charlotte to see my mother, but wanted to just give a quick squeak of pleasure at seeing our first collaboration in print, as it were. <BR/>Isn't it fun??Laurelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02050096410382276071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-60689013344067133702007-04-03T09:10:00.000-04:002007-04-03T09:10:00.000-04:00b. q.,Poems find us out in the strangest and even ...b. q.,<BR/><BR/>Poems find us out in the strangest and even the saddest places. I'm thinking of you and your mama, amid all these poems and pictures.<BR/><BR/>***<BR/><BR/>Susanna the Alabamian maid--<BR/><BR/>That's what they would have called you in the nineteenth century, and it pops into my mind when you have on the straw hat.<BR/><BR/>She does have a grand color sense. And yes, it would be Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-90788784546193193072007-04-03T09:04:00.000-04:002007-04-03T09:04:00.000-04:00I took a break from my spring cleaning morning to ...I took a break from my spring cleaning morning to take my bowl of cereal and lap top out to my little garden and read up on everybody's news and I am so glad I did. <BR/><BR/>Reading this update with my breakfast outside in the early morning air with the birds chirping really felt nice.<BR/><BR/>I think the marriage of you poetry with Laura's work is perfect. The things she paints and her colors Susannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04419802372495554966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-86998639481852916862007-04-02T23:54:00.000-04:002007-04-02T23:54:00.000-04:00vdThe poem that i learned to love poetry by, in co...vdThe poem that i learned to love poetry by, in college poetry class, was Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." <BR/><BR/>I particulary thought of it yesterday, while standing by mom's hospital bed. She is miraculously some better, as I e-mailed, and I thought of this poem. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."<BR/><BR/>I also love A.A. Milne's children's poems, in blog queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17229423128584570391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-35739474096395468092007-04-02T14:25:00.000-04:002007-04-02T14:25:00.000-04:00mb,Oh yes, I agree with that--was thinking about s...mb,<BR/><BR/>Oh yes, I agree with that--was thinking about some of the more minimal Luminist paintings...<BR/><BR/>Glad you liked the book. You are among a select few, as it garnered good reviews but didn't get "a push."<BR/><BR/>Actually I was called Ashputtle on Saturday, because I caught on hands and knees in the fireplace, shoveling up the ash. I'm trying to get all in order before I go to Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-78869267132187055582007-04-02T14:17:00.000-04:002007-04-02T14:17:00.000-04:00Turner would be considered a romantic, but what I ...Turner would be considered a romantic, but what I like about those paintings is that he focused so much on the light that the paintings are almost abstractions, almost pure light and color. For me, that makes them distinct from the Hudson School work (even the mistier landscapes) and perhaps more like the impressionists, maybe more toward Monet's waterlily studies, for example. <BR/><BR/>I liked MBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515233228776181123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-24286988404381679412007-04-02T13:47:00.000-04:002007-04-02T13:47:00.000-04:00Hullo, mb--Oh, yes, places we've been--a whole oth...Hullo, mb--<BR/><BR/>Oh, yes, places we've been--a whole other area for images. The world's so full of magical places, though they're being destroyed at a great rate.<BR/><BR/>If you like those particular Turners, I'll bet you like--or would like--some of the more misty, strange-lit paintings of John Frederick Kensett and Sanford Robinson.<BR/><BR/>Drudgement calls.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-22925248971640242452007-04-02T13:24:00.000-04:002007-04-02T13:24:00.000-04:00Zephyr's question gave me pause the first time I r...Zephyr's question gave me pause the first time I read it. I don't hold to any particulars, really, there are so many. But the longer I thought on it, the more I realized there are bits I keep coming back to.<BR/><BR/>Pictures... my mind's eye conjures up retreats to wild and wonderful places I've been — from white raging rivers to the tiny green spaces in the branches of my own little apple treeMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515233228776181123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-40384761785707810562007-04-02T08:13:00.000-04:002007-04-02T08:13:00.000-04:00Robert,After foolish April 1, SWFA will be Rather ...Robert,<BR/><BR/>After foolish April 1, SWFA will be Rather Old News, so don't take too long to absorb it! <BR/><BR/>Blackthorn and daffodils sound so utterly England-in-the-spring... See you there!<BR/><BR/>Annie,<BR/><BR/>Somewhere I have a wonderful article by Causley that I need to unearth--I'll stick up some quotes from him when I find it. (My office is in an uproar, having been moved into Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-77407201984296172672007-04-02T06:44:00.000-04:002007-04-02T06:44:00.000-04:00Marly, I seem to have rabbits and weasels galoreYo...Marly, <BR/>I seem to have rabbits and weasels galore<BR/><BR/>Your post will take time to absorb!<BR/><BR/>I have put some daffs up for you withthe blackthorn too.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00533678970029159873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-5638743832660826442007-04-01T23:31:00.000-04:002007-04-01T23:31:00.000-04:00Oh, so much with the inspiration and things to rea...Oh, so much with the inspiration and things to read and learn. The Dana Gioia piece on Causley is really beautiful, as is that poem you posted. Perhaps one of the favorites I've read today.anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08324828987699178581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-89105036571680608702007-04-01T20:48:00.000-04:002007-04-01T20:48:00.000-04:00zephyr,"Now is the time for mirth": well, it is th...zephyr,<BR/><BR/>"Now is the time for mirth": well, it is the right day for it!<BR/><BR/>Yes, I think a large, elegant certificate in beautiful calligraphy--an elegant "W" for "Wombat"--would look quite nice over my desk.<BR/><BR/>Have fun with Causley. There's a good introduction to his life and work by Dana Gioia somewhere on the web.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.com