Throwback Thursdays: Ten Writings on Salvador Dali

A young Salvador Dali. photo details unknown.

Tanka, by Saad Ali
 
Frequent contributor Saad Ali contemplates Dali and his mother.
 
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/tanka-by-saad-ali
 
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Digging Up Dali, by L.E. Goldstein
 
Poet L.E. Goldstein digs up a Dali artwork many of us haven’t seen.
 
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/digging-up-dali-by-le-goldstein
 
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Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds, by Mary Lou Buschi
 
Poet Mary Lou Buschi makes magic in just a few words.
 
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/couple-with-their-heads-full-of-clouds-by-mary-lou-buschi
 
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Mad Minerva, by Steve Klepetar
 
Steve Klepetar tackles mythology and Dali in the earliest days of The Ekphrastic Review.
 
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/mad-minerva-by-steve-klepetar
 
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Mrs. Dali Takes a Bath, by Katherine Huang
 
Poet Katherine Huang contemplates Dali’s wife.
 
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/mrs-dali-takes-a-bath-by-katherine-huang
 
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Forever Dali, by Aline Soules
 
Aline Soules remembers the impact of an artwork she saw in person.
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/forever-dali-by-aline-soules
 
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The Lopsided Ticking of Dali’s Clocks, by M.J. Iuppa
 
M.J. Iuppa writes about one of the world’s most recognizable paintings.
 
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/the-lopsided-ticking-of-dalis-clocks-by-mj-iuppa
 
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Drawers, Slips, and Slits
 
Jungian scholar Dr. Roula-Maria Dib takes apart and puts back together The Anthropomorphic Cabinet.
 
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/drawers-slips-and-slits-by-roula-maria-dib
 
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Lullabye of Uncle Magritte, by Boris Glikman
 
Surrealist flash fiction writer Boris Glikman is inspired by Michael Cheval’s artwork inspired by Dali and Magritte.
 
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/lullabye-of-uncle-magritte-by-boris-glikman
 
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(she)ll on the shining sand, by Tricia Marcella Cimera
 
Our poetry judge for the upcoming Bird Watching contest has been with us since the beginning. Here is a poem on a Dali sketch in collaboration with Walt Disney.
 
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/shell-on-the-shining-sand-by-tricia-marcella-cimera
 
 
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