tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post5552505325030778754..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: 3 readings in time and artMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-37526840723531102092016-04-16T10:01:16.349-04:002016-04-16T10:01:16.349-04:00Thanks for the recommendation! I no longer have go...Thanks for the recommendation! I no longer have good inter-library loan but will check it out when I'm away....Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-14903251560802150772016-04-16T09:04:20.544-04:002016-04-16T09:04:20.544-04:00Elder artists: Hermann Broch's essay "The...Elder artists: Hermann Broch's essay "The Style of the Mythical Age: On Rachel Bespaloff" has some interesting paragraphs on "the style of old age." It is collected in the NYRB volume <i>War and the Iliad</i> with essays by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-78748135581594476202016-04-15T22:16:09.455-04:002016-04-15T22:16:09.455-04:00Haha! I like that Miltonian variation.
Yes, we ne...Haha! I like that Miltonian variation.<br /><br />Yes, we need champions, and Birkerts could be one.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-19442485072101065982016-04-15T21:16:06.620-04:002016-04-15T21:16:06.620-04:00There it is—you've helped me hone in on what b...There it is—you've helped me hone in on what bothered me about the Birkerts piece. It just seems to me that someone who edits a journal, runs a major writing program, and has received several prestigious grant ought to be more than just a chronicler of decline, but a champion for things that stall or even reverse that decline. I don't mean to slander him; I just don't understand how Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-37009098501386680062016-04-15T00:38:10.778-04:002016-04-15T00:38:10.778-04:00I have been interested to see that over the years,...I have been interested to see that over the years, Birkerts seems more and more confirmed in his feeling that words are on the way out, and that the literary is doomed. Really, though, he has made quite a few books out of such things--and surely that ought to suggest otherwise, at least a little!<br /><br />Glad that your lady has an interesting way of teaching poetry. One of my students at the Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-55311708404610013842016-04-14T23:00:24.632-04:002016-04-14T23:00:24.632-04:00Birkets makes many good points in that piece, but ...Birkets makes many good points in that piece, but I found it frustrating, because he, like many commentators, sees these trends as inevitable, like cold fronts and tides, as if we have no control over them--as if we have no control over the reading and learning and consumption habits of children. People just shrug and go, "well, I guess this is the way it's going," as if the Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-61571306589586754662016-04-14T07:39:18.806-04:002016-04-14T07:39:18.806-04:00Hi, Tim--
Hope you found something of interest in...Hi, Tim--<br /><br />Hope you found something of interest in that microcosm! Have been ferrying and laboring but will check and see later.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-40195744692686971902016-04-13T13:51:47.239-04:002016-04-13T13:51:47.239-04:00Marly, I respond to your provocation by returning ...Marly, I respond to your provocation by returning yet again to Elsinore this afternoon and this evening. Almost all things in heaven and earth can be found within those castle walls. Shakespeare beckons! I wonder what I will find during this visit. Thanks.RTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113953356514605424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-74535291352203267102016-04-13T13:45:57.025-04:002016-04-13T13:45:57.025-04:00Horatio:
O day and night, but this is wondrous str...Horatio:<br />O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!<br /><br />Hamlet:<br />And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.<br />There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,<br />Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.<br /><br />I thought of Hamlet... who certainly lived in a burning house, both his own body and the royal house, also a body, and the world.<br /><br />Birkerts Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-53309597523177756272016-04-13T13:24:44.676-04:002016-04-13T13:24:44.676-04:00i note considerations of change sweeping my little...i note considerations of change sweeping my little corner of the webnet this morning. it is constant and unnoticed, and rarely dealt with in our philosophies(ham)... Buddha said we all live in a burning house. form is nonexistent(known as no-mind) and function is the shaping of change, which is "creativity". humans do it in many ways; the latter growing and waning with our Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-63132368882887542332016-04-13T11:30:37.343-04:002016-04-13T11:30:37.343-04:00Unfortunately, I think the short lyric poem tends ...Unfortunately, I think the short lyric poem tends to be in somewhat of a parlous state and needing renewal by more diverse, now-forgotten and not-yet-invented forms. But you're right, short-attention span forms may increase.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-40180674932164999722016-04-13T11:26:56.243-04:002016-04-13T11:26:56.243-04:00Birkerts points to a time when poets specializing ...Birkerts points to a time when poets specializing in concise forms (more easily distributed and read via short-attention span electronic media) rather than novelists and writers of long-forms of literature (not easily digested via electrons) will rule the literary world (or what remains of it). So, poets of the world, keep on keeping on. RTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113953356514605424noreply@blogger.com