tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post114679689338218394..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Baynard, with a Murakami momentMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1151426648666833012006-06-27T12:44:00.000-04:002006-06-27T12:44:00.000-04:00Marly describes well the gorgeous blue works Ed Ba...Marly describes well the gorgeous blue works Ed Bayard talked about for our group. I was struck also by the beauty of his vision, that this color was so pure and so perfectly even, a miracle in watercolor, that his circles were so precise and ethereal, accomplished with the placement of a humble paper plate. The birds were fallen or falling, dead or dying, the sky was roiling and pushing Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1147023570134529552006-05-07T13:39:00.000-04:002006-05-07T13:39:00.000-04:00Yes, a good reading. One woman I was with said "ma...Yes, a good reading. One woman I was with said "macular degeneration of the spirit." <BR/><BR/>Man and woman were utterly absent... No place left for them in the doomed landscape, though their handiwork was visible.<BR/><BR/>Oh, that's not up to me. It will be fun if we do it, though!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1146999825048438692006-05-07T07:03:00.000-04:002006-05-07T07:03:00.000-04:00What powerful images, both Baynard’s paintings and...What powerful images, both Baynard’s paintings and your word images, Marly. When viewing “Re-Emerging”, I imagine one more painting: man/woman with the hole. Isn’t it to fill the round absence that we seek after God? And isn’t it from that wound that we in turn wound, the world, its creatures, and self? “Who is man that thou art mindful of him?” plays in my head.<BR/><BR/>Any update about your Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1146946845311362752006-05-06T16:20:00.000-04:002006-05-06T16:20:00.000-04:00Lucky "M"?Because M stands for "middle." Middle of...Lucky "M"?<BR/><BR/>Because M stands for "middle." Middle of the row, eye-high. Not XYZ at the tag-end, bottom right-hand corner or even around the spillover back in the Occult Corner or among the Local Cookbooks or some such.<BR/><BR/>Paperback yesterday: it sounds like something from the Mad Tea Party. Something served with Never Jam Today.<BR/><BR/>And thanks! Credit is, of course, due to W. BMarly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1146944294007471342006-05-06T15:38:00.000-04:002006-05-06T15:38:00.000-04:00Lovely. And yes, it is interesting how one's work-...Lovely. And yes, it is interesting how one's work--and life--can take on meanings and colors one didn't see at first.<BR/>As to your update--I wanted your books out in paperback yesterday. But I guess the world will wait. (Pilgrim Soul--what a perfect title).jarvenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04709417058741577802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1146939980166864042006-05-06T14:26:00.000-04:002006-05-06T14:26:00.000-04:00Why lucky?Why lucky?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com