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Monday, August 03, 2009

"A link in the chain of artists"

"In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true." --Van Gogh

Although I have enjoyed letters by various writers and artists, it is Van Gogh's that I love best, and I have just realized that they are online, along with many images and other materials at http://www.vggallery.com/ . . .

Credit: Exhibition poster, "Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amersterdam" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

HER BOOK-CHILDREN

SEREN OF THE WILDWOOD (Wiseblood Books, 2023)
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)

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 and haunting.
--novelist Sebastien Doubinsky. Youmans, one of the biggest secrets of contemporary American fiction, writes with freshness and beauty
--Jeffery Beam.

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Monday, August 03, 2009

"A link in the chain of artists"