I am so excited to share two new poems from author and poet Marly Youmans (whose previous work I have reviewed here and here). Recently, I realized that the Journal of Mythic Arts Poetry archives was incomplete without something from Marly, whose work in mythic and fairy tale poetry is really stunning. I asked, and […]
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Another earlier post from this spring brought forward to join up with my thinking about this interesting group of women. But maybe also about the rites of passage of marriage, especially as an site of enormous social tension in society. Not entirely sure where this is all going to fit into the novel and into
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This is a reposting of an earlier post on the folk tales and others from Laura Gonzenbach‘s collections and seemed a good one to follow on the heels of earlier notes. I also want to reference another post on the banished bride I wrote about earlier this year — a variant of the women below.
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The pleasure of unpacking in a rented house is deciding once and for all to unpack everything, knowing that in due time, one will be moving again. So there is a desire on my part to organize and winnow everything that has sat in a box somewhere in my old attic for thirty years waiting
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I have been going through a cigar box of collected calling cards from my great grandmother and I am astonished by the variety of pretty designs combined with the elegant scripts. It just seems such a lovely convention and I am rather sorry we don’t do it anymore. Now we hand out “business cards” which
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Part of the joy in sifting through archived papers of my family and my own, is coming upon treasures not seen for many years. I was delighted when I uncovered this letter written in calligraphy from Joan Baez. When I was about 11 or 12, my neighbor friend — an older teenage girl named Eddie,
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Yes, I have been a bit more absent these days. It has been a summer of travel to see my children and especially my beautiful granddaughter. And because we drive, rather than fly, these are long days on the road through some of the most beautiful and myth-making countryside. A return home is always jarring,
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I am not at all sure what the artist was thinking when he added this little marginal painting in a manuscript, but I love it. An angry oyster protecting a pearl? unwilling to be eaten? or just ornery from a life time of an irritating parasite giving him a silvery ulcer. Maybe a painter frustrated
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I am an instant fan of late 19th century illustrator Peter Newell whose work was funny, explosive, and full of hilarious details that made my husband exclaim, “He must have been on drugs.” Hahaha…well, not sure about that last bit, but he is wonderful. Above is one of Alice in Wonderland illustrations — fighting
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Mostly because its not my problems that I am solving. I seem to have spent the last five days putting out fires, rebuilding lost websites, reputations, getting other people’s work done, and completely ignoring my own. How does that happen? I am too much of a competent fixer of problems not my own. And as happy
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