|
| Marc Chagall, "The Poet Reclining" |
In 2003, after seeing Chagall exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I began writing a sequence of ekphrastic poems, "Eva's Voice," in the voice of an imaginary poet, Eva Victoria Perera, a Sephardic Jew from Thessaloniki, who survives the Holocaust. I was awarded a sabbatical from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (where I taught at the time) and a Senior Fulbright Scholarship for my project. As a result I was able to spend nineteen months in Greece, from June 2005 to January 2007, working on "Eva's Voice." You can read an essay I wrote about Eva and Marc Chagall, "How Eva Victoria Perera Learned to Fly with
|
| Marc Chagall, "White Crucifixion" |
Chagall" in The Drunken Boat. If you scroll to the end of the essay, you’ll find Eva’s bio.
In the same issue of Boat, you can also read an essay I wrote