One the painters who has most inspired my poetry is Marc Chagall. I wrote a series of poems, "Eva's Voice," based on his work (it appears in Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 2009). I have written an essay,
"How Eva Victoria Perrera Learned to Fly with Chagall," about Chagall and my imaginary poet, Eva Victoria Perrera. Eva was a Sephardic Jew from Thessaloniki who survived the Holocaust. There's another essay that I wrote about this project, "
In Defense of a Poetics of Witness." There's more on "Eva's Voice" in my post
"Play + Practice = Work."
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| "Bella with White Collar," Marc Chagall, 1917 |
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| The Blue House, Marc Chagall |
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"The Fiddler," Marc Chagall, 1912-13
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