For Week 4 of the Hidden Cathedral Poetry Celebration, first Marly Youmans shows her books of poetry with art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
These friends and collaborators—the poet and the artist— collect images in their work for their texture and shape, strangeness and beauty, and for their fantastic, historic and symbolic value, such as you can see from a book jacket above, and also behind Marly in the videos she has made for us.
For Clive’s artlog (for fans of Cocteau, especially) visit the link below:
https://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/
For Marly’s blog which also includes her fiction visit this link:
https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/
This video contains poems from the standpoint of a father, including a stunningly vivid poem that paints surgery, the Man of Sorrows, and medieval art—from Majmudar’s most recent book of poetry.
David Middleton’s poem with two interesting epigraphs leads to a poem by Jones Very—mystic from the time and circle of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A poem from ANNUNCIATION: SIXTEEN CONTEMPORARY POETS CONSIDER MARY from Phoenicia Publishing by Luisa A. Igloria, 20th Poet Laureate of Virginia, with art by Elizabeth Adams.
Click on the videos to watch them on YouTube’s website where you can scroll down to read Marly’s notes about the poets and find links to more of their work. See you next week.