Marly Youmans's Blog, page 169

Right now—when I am not lashing my daughter to finish her college applications or doing the FAFSA or meeting my deadlines on the 15th—I am pondering the issue of poetry book marketing.Yes, marketing is boring and is easily left to marketers. But don't go away! I need you! If you're not a poet and not a marketer, I still need you because you're not in the box. If you are a writer/marketer, tell me

Realized that I posted this on facebook/twitter but not here... Two poems from my frolics and wanderings in Sherwood: http://www.lucidrhythms.com/December-...

"Gail White claims a new authority for the woman light-verse writer: The right to assert herself as a satirist, as a clear-eyed critic of the world around her… Her poetic voice seems unusually tough, self-confident, and astringent." —Julie Kane, author of Rhythm & BoozeLast month Gail White sent me her book Easy Marks (David Roberts Books, 2008); I know who Gail is because of the Formalista

"Gail White claims a new authority for the woman light-verse writer: The right to assert herself as a satirist, as a clear-eyed critic of the world around her… Her poetic voice seems unusually tough, self-confident, and astringent." —Julie Kane, author of Rhythm & BoozeLast month Gail White sent me her book Easy Marks (David Roberts Books, 2008); I know who Gail is because of the Formalista

"Self-portrait as Dryad, no. 7" is up at qarrtsiluni: http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/12/16/sel.... There's a podcast and a place for comments, so I'll turn them off here as I'm sure qarrtsiluni and Beth Adams and Dave Bonta (the Bontasaurus) have earned any love that comes along.

Wouldn't it be surprising if a little novel published in a foreign country and in a limited edition caught a "Book of the Year" notice anywhere in the U.S.? We don't seem to pay that much attention to books in short runs, published on the other side of the ocean. I didn't imagine such a thing--though I've been on such lists before, the idea of Val/Orson even making a "Top Ten" list never drifted

P. S. Publishing is having a Christmas sale: 3 books for the price of 2. Now you could use Val/Orson in multiples of three, couldn't you? And many other books as well.Broad jump to http://store.pspublishing.co.uk.

THE FLEA, broadsheet no. 4Like the very best sort of vampire--not sparkly, not sappy, and juicy with blood--The Flea leaps onto the stage of the mortal world.ContentsEditorialEpigraphic poem: Borrowed Tactics by Mark AllinsonDionysus and Apollo by Thomas ZimmermanThe Memoir Artists by Marly YoumansWhen Jesus Was Grown by Gail WhiteThe Reading by Timothy MurphySticking Point by Rick MullinThe

Since flying from Siem Reap to Bangkok to Tokyo to D. C. to Albany, I have been roiled and clubbed and generally dragged in and out of sleep by raging jet lag. Twelve time zones appears to be too much for this body. Meanwhile the floor guys came and tore up multiple rotting floors in my 1808 house--antique larch and old-fashioned linseed-oil style linoleum going in--and computer and printer and

Back from Thailand and Cambodia...