tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post7572807686347500392..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: "Like a tower"Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-2191684960634788802013-03-09T07:49:49.606-05:002013-03-09T07:49:49.606-05:00Anil,
So glad you came by--I have been under the ...Anil,<br /><br />So glad you came by--I have been under the thumb of winter bugs and not doing much internet traveling. I shall have to go see what you have been doing on the other side of the world! Exhibits, you say: very good!<br /><br />I like what you say, and also that there is some mystery about what is "outside" and what is "within."Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-83347442065471860492013-03-09T01:50:38.208-05:002013-03-09T01:50:38.208-05:00Being two things at the same time, depending on wh...Being two things at the same time, depending on whether you're looking from the outside, or from within. <br /><br />The 'repose', yes, one I happened to use as a take-off point for my photography exhibits recently.<br /><br />So can well relate to these paragraphs.Anil Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02422187314611747278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-40284922912335172202013-03-07T14:45:20.866-05:002013-03-07T14:45:20.866-05:00So you read it twice! Thank you. Rereading is the ...So you read it twice! Thank you. Rereading is the best reading...<br /><br />Just came back from a long class on Maximus the Confessor. Read a somewhat turgid translation of his no-doubt dense letter to one of the Byzantine eunuch chamberlains... Fascinating. Moving, even, despite the thickets of prose.<br /><br />I go back to Yeats from time to time and each time fall for his poems all over Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-36512964229072313802013-03-07T14:29:47.209-05:002013-03-07T14:29:47.209-05:00I see you already used the idea of completeness, w...I see you already used the idea of completeness, which I just skimmed right past the first time I read the post. scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-51500582116965843232013-03-07T12:05:26.669-05:002013-03-07T12:05:26.669-05:00I was about to argue that Yeats' poems are nev...I was about to argue that Yeats' poems are never at rest, because they are so alive on the page. Then I thought about it for a moment and I will grant that Yeats has a solidity, or maybe a completeness of his own. That might be what Unterecker means by repose here. <br /><br />I don't claim much knowledge of poetry, but I love Yeats. Thanks for pointing to the Augustine passage. I love scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-67668455409971181322013-03-07T08:40:22.165-05:002013-03-07T08:40:22.165-05:00Thank you, Miss Mary Boxley Bullington, exuberant ...Thank you, Miss Mary Boxley Bullington, exuberant painter and committer of poems--much appreciated!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-54480733780903450882013-03-07T08:21:50.751-05:002013-03-07T08:21:50.751-05:00A fabulous connection between Augustine's desc...A fabulous connection between Augustine's description of God and prosody is born in the entry--ahem, little the Palace bower--above. Even Robert Graves and Randall Jarrell have not come up with anything more majestic or more apt. Miz Youmans writes: "To be eternally at work and eternally at rest is to have reached perfection, completion, fullness: as is sought in the making of that mary bullingtonnoreply@blogger.com