tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post6568089966053377186..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Christmas cardMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-70775023597844329882017-12-23T11:31:15.413-05:002017-12-23T11:31:15.413-05:00So I've read almost half! Yes, that would make...So I've read almost half! Yes, that would make a charming little book. I gave Phoenicia's "Annunciation" anthology to about a dozen people, who seemed to like it. An anthology on a theme can be enticing. And yes, a marvelous Christmas card...<br /><br />I'm home, cleaning and decking and wishing for merry flames in the fireplace! Cooperstown had snow and ice yesterday, so weMarly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-90660598651978886472017-12-23T11:26:48.513-05:002017-12-23T11:26:48.513-05:00Is revelation benign? Flannery O'Connor would ...Is revelation benign? Flannery O'Connor would say no!<br /><br />"Little Lamb" does have a sweetness that no doubt is too sweet for some--fits quite well into the sequence, though, and fits with Segur, who is also often sweet. "A Child's Garden of Verses" is one of the books I owned, and I read ragged every book I owned. I had poetry anthologies, too, and I loved Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-61997360266627608152017-12-23T02:30:36.559-05:002017-12-23T02:30:36.559-05:00I have maybe eight Christmas poems so far: a coupl...I have maybe eight Christmas poems so far: a couple from the gargoyle book, two or three unpublished poems, and the "December" entry from the calendar poem. I have one more nearly done and a second one for this year knocking around conceptually in my mind, and a half-finished translation of an early medieval poem about winter. I've long had this idea that someday, once I have enoughJeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-70397971640448995122017-12-23T02:23:58.644-05:002017-12-23T02:23:58.644-05:00I really have difficulty recalling Christmas "...I really have difficulty recalling Christmas "as a small child". Between ages 5 and 10 WW2 was raging and even now the sound of an air-raid warning siren - on a TV documentary, say - causes me to shudder. Street-lights were turned off, windows were sealed with black-out curtain, there was a good deal of darkness both abroad and within the spirit. But something odd did happen and I Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-3118358548048489132017-12-22T09:12:38.496-05:002017-12-22T09:12:38.496-05:00That's like you--I mean, you are into the whol...That's like you--I mean, you are into the whole idea of "calendar." Do you have a little collection of them? I think it would be interesting to see the collection and comments!<br /><br />"Put away mousetraps" could be in The Beallsville Calendar. <br /><br />Have much merriness when Christmas comes--you and that sweetheart! And a meaningful (peaceful and prolific sounds Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-42200572581981514562017-12-22T00:35:41.743-05:002017-12-22T00:35:41.743-05:00What a Christmas cornucopia!
We hosted the Christ...What a Christmas cornucopia!<br /><br />We hosted the Christmas-holiday-snowman-season-whatever party for my sweetheart's colleagues here at the house tonight. It's rather funny to have "put away mousetraps" on the to-do list beforehand.<br /><br />I've tried and failed to get in the habit of writing a Christmas poem every year...but I just pulled out a shaggy draft from Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.com