tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post3288270149607186303..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Creative Joy / West ChesterMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-13466229364580055902011-06-16T22:42:17.845-04:002011-06-16T22:42:17.845-04:00No doubt it will sound quite fine with a British a...No doubt it will sound quite fine with a British accent...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-70943615354482964562011-06-16T22:29:26.267-04:002011-06-16T22:29:26.267-04:00Indeed I am almost certain I would find myself in ...Indeed I am almost certain I would find myself in much agreement with Robbi. <br />"The resistance of the medium" is an expression I shall now use most happily!Paul Digbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-62702518954620186402011-06-16T15:45:45.855-04:002011-06-16T15:45:45.855-04:00Robbi,
I have no doubt Paul would or will agree w...Robbi,<br /><br />I have no doubt Paul would or will agree with you, given what he has to say about composing music...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-69034856463769356082011-06-16T15:44:57.237-04:002011-06-16T15:44:57.237-04:00Paul,
I probably have said quite a bit about it, ...Paul,<br /><br />I probably have said quite a bit about it, here and there. And then when I was doing aphorisms, I did a poetry patch...<br /><br />But no doubt I will have more to say, though I think in the end it hardly matters what poets and writers say about their art. All that matters is in the work itself, which often says something more interesting than what the writer had to say about it.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-40369021078470162532011-06-16T13:31:22.697-04:002011-06-16T13:31:22.697-04:00Paul,
Half of art is wrestling with the resistance...Paul,<br />Half of art is wrestling with the resistance of the medium.Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-18984221429405370182011-06-16T13:05:55.686-04:002011-06-16T13:05:55.686-04:00Hmm....
I wonder what YOU think poetry should be,...Hmm.... <br />I wonder what YOU think poetry should be, and how and why it succeeds! What a fascinating blog posting that would be - if you have not done this already.<br />I have my own ideas, but they have as much to do with what words cannot do, as what they can!Paul Digbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-77474142977807593152011-06-16T07:39:26.576-04:002011-06-16T07:39:26.576-04:00Clare,
When I was looking online for a place to s...Clare,<br /><br />When I was looking online for a place to stay (I waited a bit late and so didn't have a lot of choice), I had to make sure I did not get Westchester, New York or Chester, Pennsylvania but landed in the right West Chester. I'm sure there are many more Chester-towns of various sorts in the U. S.<br /><br />Maybe I'll post some more Stauffer bits later. I think him marly youmanshttp://www.marlyyoumans.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-85902609675409833142011-06-16T07:34:55.445-04:002011-06-16T07:34:55.445-04:00marja-leena,
We can hope that it is art, the inne...marja-leena,<br /><br />We can hope that it is art, the inner fountain!<br /><br />I really like this small, old book. It is full of wonderful remarks about poetry, and I do think that true things about one art have resonance for another.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-86662684102554656522011-06-16T02:58:04.346-04:002011-06-16T02:58:04.346-04:00Ha, at first I thought maybe you were reporting on...Ha, at first I thought maybe you were reporting on somewhere more local (to me!). Strange to think there is another Chester in the world (actually, I suspect there's probably several). <br /><br />Great set of quotes, here - quite encouraging...(I am taking them to include all sorts of creative writing).Clare Dudmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06197558842580794165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-49312831456752437512011-06-15T23:51:27.786-04:002011-06-15T23:51:27.786-04:00Amazingly young looking 90 year old, writing poetr...Amazingly young looking 90 year old, writing poetry must be the secret to a long life?! Sounds like a fun time. Enjoyed your reading, and the quotes here are great for all creatives.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-37740015417715935362011-06-15T17:15:17.412-04:002011-06-15T17:15:17.412-04:00Blank verse is a good tool.Blank verse is a good tool.Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-44496192910623475862011-06-15T16:27:26.766-04:002011-06-15T16:27:26.766-04:00Readings are fun; getting there can, yes, be tires...Readings are fun; getting there can, yes, be tiresome!<br /><br />It was lucky to be there the day the birthday was celebrated--wine and edibles out in the grass with the gnats!<br /><br />I probably have more blank verse at this point than rhyming poems... I really like the swing of both, though.marly youmanshttp://www.marlyyoumans.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-11093493522511633852011-06-15T14:27:41.925-04:002011-06-15T14:27:41.925-04:00Marly,
How wonderful that you were able to attend ...Marly,<br />How wonderful that you were able to attend Richard Wilbur's 90th b-day, and to read there. I thought your reading was delightful. However tiresome you might find traveling around and doing these readings, reading does great credit to your poems, particularly the rhymed ones, where the places (and ways) you do NOT rhyme are even more intriguing than those you do.Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.com