tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post113617301791327743..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Reading with Jeff VanderMeer at KGB's Fantastic Fiction seriesMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1137358378523916832006-01-15T15:52:00.000-05:002006-01-15T15:52:00.000-05:00Very interesting list. I also went through a perio...Very interesting list. I also went through a period of loving <I>The First Four Books</I>, or whatever that Merwin reprint collection was called. And I have read a good bit of poetry in translation, as well. And had two years of Russian (not enough for anything, really) and fooled around with translating lyrics. Akhmatova I liked very much, though I haven't read her in a long time.<BR/><BR/>My Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1137310668154475032006-01-15T02:37:00.000-05:002006-01-15T02:37:00.000-05:00Possession is Byatt's most well known work (comple...Possession is Byatt's most well known work (complete with movie-of), which I did like, but then I was a specialist in Victorian lit in a former life (or what seems like a former life), so delved right in. The Melusine story is a short story centering upon aging, and is in a collection of same, and I still, damn it, don't have the name. You are right, though, in Possession one of the poems that jarvenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04709417058741577802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1137269647569491322006-01-14T15:14:00.000-05:002006-01-14T15:14:00.000-05:00Possession (wasn't that the one?) seems to have di...<I>Possession</I> (wasn't that the one?) seems to have dissolved into the primal alphabet soup of my mind. But I should look at it again. I'm a great re-reader.<BR/><BR/>I'd still be interested to see your list of favorites... And what contemporary poets do you like?Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1137226513502892012006-01-14T03:15:00.000-05:002006-01-14T03:15:00.000-05:00Obviously Jeff is just hoping The Wolf Pit is Ada...Obviously Jeff is just hoping The Wolf Pit is Adantean. I do wish I could drop in on your reading--but the mountain is walking again to the ocean...The Melusina story posted on the blog you linked to reminded me that I wanted to ask if you'd read AS Byatt's Melusine story (the name of which escapes me this evening, drat--remember the nice green cover, and the terrible fact that the copy I read jarvenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04709417058741577802noreply@blogger.com