Marly Youmans's Blog, page 155

Why is The Throne of Psyche today's illustration? No good reason except that books shipped from the mill on the 25th and so pub date approaches. And that I am just as cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof antsy as any other writer with a new book of poetry, worried whether her paper progeny will ever find good homes and readers. Also, I suppose that we can class this publication as one of those alternative

BLOOM/Korach

It's easy for womento identify with Korach.Why should all the powerReside in one set of hands?
Why shouldn't webe able to speak to Godon our time, lightingour own smudge-sticks hearts?
Why should our bodiesneed concealment, likefaces of the Holy Blessed Onehidden from creation?
Sometimes when we say thisthe earth swallows us wholelike Persephone, eaterof pomegranate seeds.
Sometimes

I promised a surprise to my facebook friends, and I promised it by midnight. I hope they'll forgive me for the slowness of uploads. I meant it as a bit of a salute to April Fool's Day, but the Day is tricksy and shook me into the 2nd.

So here's the Fool from my ongoing project, The Book of the Red King. And it's all thanks to the composing and photography and video-making of that lovely man,

Photograph of spaghetti courtesy of sxc.hu
and Marcin Jochimczyk, Sosnowiec, Slaskie, Poland.
zephyr said...

i wonder:

how many writers were successful enough to not need a job in the era when editors could focus on art and publishing houses were individual, home owned entities? Perhaps more novelists, poets, essayists were published but how well did all those books sell? How many were

Photograph of spaghetti courtesy of sxc.hu
and Marcin Jochimczyk, Sosnowiec, Slaskie, Poland.
zephyr said...

i wonder:

how many writers were successful enough to not need a job in the era when editors could focus on art and publishing houses were individual, home owned entities? Perhaps more novelists, poets, essayists were published but how well did all those books sell? How many were

8.  Doing what you want to do



"Late 19th-century bookseller's sign
in one of three languages on the Rokin, Amsterdam."
Courtesy of Herman Brinkman
of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and sxc.hu.
Is there been a cost to doing what you want to do? Yes, there is a price, particularly if you pursue your own path, and even more particularly if your path takes you down various windings--in my case,

8.  Doing what you want to do




"Late 19th-century bookseller's sign
in one of three languages on the Rokin, Amsterdam."
Courtesy of Herman Brinkman
of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and sxc.hu.
Is there been a cost to doing what you want to do? Yes, there is a price, particularly if you pursue your own path, and even more particularly if your path takes you down various windings--in my

5 birds, 3 eggs: Press 53
Cover artist Emma Skurnick
A Novello Literary Award Finalist
7. More on luck

Marjorie Hudson's second book, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas: Stories about Yankees Moving South, is forthcoming on May 15 from Press 53. Doris Betts says "Hudson's prose is pure as birdsong." Visit her website here. Click on the title to sail onto her page at Press 53.

I e-met Marjorie

5 birds, 3 eggs: Press 53
Cover artist Emma Skurnick
A Novello Literary Award Finalist
7. More on luck

Marjorie Hudson's second book, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas: Stories about Yankees Moving South, is forthcoming on May 15 from Press 53. Doris Betts says "Hudson's prose is pure as birdsong." Visit her website here. Click on the title to sail onto her page at Press 53.

I e-met Marjorie

The wonderful Paul Digby has made another video!
There are two easy ways to see it. One, click on the title link above to fly to a larger video box at youtube. Or wander into the right-hand panel and watch a smaller version on this page.
This time the subject is "The Exile's Track," also from The Throne of Psyche (Mercer University Press, April 2011.) Evidently the Southerner in me sometimes