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Friday, November 25, 2011

Haiku VIII

As you are writing
The ink grows less
The sea increases. --George Seferis, trans. Rex Warner

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Charis in the World of Wonders (Ignatius Press, 2020)

ed. John Wilson: "confirms once more Marly Youmans' place among the magi."

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The Ferrol Sams Award; Silver Award in Fiction, ForeWord BOTYAs

D. G. Myers Best Books of 2012, Books and Culture Favorite Books of 2012. Writing with a controlled lyrical passion, Marly Youmans has crafted the finest, and the truest period novel I've read in years. --Lucius Shepard

The Throne of Psyche

Mercer, 2011

KINDRED SPIRITS

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My friend Marly Youmans is one of America's finest writers... From the very beginning of my awareness of her work, I realized that her voice was unique, her grasp of technique in poetry and fiction stunning, and her imagination boundless. -novelist/poet Philip Lee Williams

Val/Orson

BOOKS AND CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR '09 UK: P. S. Publishing. More than any other book I read in 2009, this one insistently came to mind." --John Wilson, Editor

Praise for A DEATH AT THE WHITE CAMELLIA ORPHANAGE

* A REVIEWER: "Its themes and the power of its language, the forceful flow of its storyline and its characters have earned the right to a broad national audience" John M. Formy-Duval for About.com.

* A BOOKSELLER: "I agree with one reviewer that said this is destined to be an American classic." Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, NC

Ingledove

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005. "A simply beautiful novel -Midori Snyder. I really admired this book --Diana Wynne Jones.

Catherwood

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. Ms. Youmans has written a subtle, intelligent novel about one of the most enduring issues in the American experiment: how to embrace “the world and God” as “better” than men dream. --Philip Gambone, The New York Times Book Review.

The Curse of the Raven Mocker

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. ...prose this luminous and a narrative this strong deserve wide readership -Fredric Koeppel, The Memphis Commercial Appeal

The Wolf Pit - The Michael Shaara Award

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. Now, Youmans, who was reared in the Carolinas and lives in Cooperstown, N. Y., hits her stride as a historical novelist with spellbinding force in only her third book. -Bob Summer, Orlando Sentinel

Seren of the Wildwood

Wiseblood Books, 2023

The Book of the Red King (Phoenicia Publishing, 2019)

Marly Youmans is brilliant, perhaps a genius...the reader will be spellbound. -Kelly Cherry

Glimmerglass (Mercer) "Rich and strange" Steelman, Wilmington Star

It’s difficult to overstate the emotional effect that Glimmerglass has had on me. This is a beautiful, complex, moving book. -Tom Atherton, "Strange Horizons"

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Thaliad (Phoenicia, 2012)

Books & Culture Favorites of 2012. Heroic poetry of highest calibre. Amazing, mesmerizing ...work of genius. --Lee Smith

Maze of Blood Mercer '15

This is one of the strangest books I have read in a long while, and also one of the best. -Wilson's Bookmarks, CT

UK: Stanza, 2012

"one of the most beautiful books of the 21st century" -Ben Steelman, The Star News, 11/2014

...wholly beautiful and brilliant. Youmans is a writer of rare ability whose works will one day be studied by serious students of poetry. Greg Langley

Marly in Japan, fall 2017

Youmans (pronounced like 'yeoman' with an 's' added) is the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers --John Wilson, editor, Books and Culture. Marly Youmans is a novelist and poet out of sync with the times but in tune with the ages --First Things. I cannot recommend an author more than Marly Youmans, whose fantastic prose is absolutely gorgeous & haunting --novelist Sebastien Doubinsky. Youmans, one of the biggest secrets of contemporary American fiction, writes with freshness & beauty --Jeffery Beam.

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CLAIRE

Louisiana University Press, 2003 (poetry.) Readers of Marly Youmans know her supple, sensuous prose. In Claire she shifts to the more nervous rhythms of poetry, exploring the dark, rich realms of childhood -John Montague.

Youmans shows astonishing skill, whatever the subject. She is a poet working at the height of her powers Kim Bridgford

Little Jordan

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1995

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CHARIS IN THE WORLD OF WONDERS (Ignatius Press, 2020)
THE BOOK OF THE RED KING (Phoenicia Publishing, 2019)
MAZE OF BLOOD (Mercer University Press, 2015)
GLIMMERGLASS (Mercer University Press, 2014)
THALIAD (Montreal: Phoenicia Publishing, 2012)
THE FOLIATE HEAD (UK: Stanza Press, 2012)
A DEATH AT THE WHITE CAMELLIA ORPHANAGE (Mercer University Press, 2012)
THE THRONE OF PSYCHE (Mercer University Press, 2011)
VAL/ORSON (UK: P. S. Publishing, 2009)
INGLEDOVE (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005)
CLAIRE (Louisiana State University Press - Poetry Series, 2003)
THE CURSE OF THE RAVEN MOCKER (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)
THE WOLF PIT (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001)
CATHERWOOD (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996)
LITTLE JORDAN (David R. Godine, Publisher, 1995)

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