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04-01-2003, 03:56 PM
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Treat yourselves and buy the current Atlantic Monthly for the pleasure of Alicia's stunning poem. I started out to congratulate Alica, but I think the real congratulations go to the editors at the Atlantic.
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04-01-2003, 04:20 PM
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I have the April issue right in front of me, and I can't find any poems by Alicia. Do you mean the March issue, perhaps? (I haven't seen the March issue).
Anyway, congrats to Alicia and The Atlantic!
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04-01-2003, 05:41 PM
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Stunning news!! Congrats!
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04-01-2003, 06:01 PM
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Congrats! It's a stunning ekphrastic: "Amateur Iconography: Resurrection," in the May issue I just pulled from the mail.
Cheers!
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04-01-2003, 07:08 PM
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Just received my copy as well - and "stunning" is the correct word. The poem is magnificent
And now for some dumb questions. What is this about Eve's left hand? If there's a Biblical reference there I don't get it, and neither - on a very superficial search - does Google. And the painting shows a left hand. But I'm not sure if the repro in the Atlantic is the painting the poem describes, or if Alicia invented something similar. Can anybody help?
Michael
[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited April 01, 2003).]
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04-01-2003, 07:14 PM
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Michael, apparently Eve took the apple with her left, sinister, hand; but you're right that hand shows in the ikon. (Also, for years Davidson has said "beware the present tense," but here it is!)
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04-01-2003, 11:25 PM
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Goodness! I thought the poem was coming out in May. This is April, isn't it? Wow!
I have submitted to the Atlantic for years and years, working up to increasingly nice rejection slips. I think they finally got tired of composing rejection slips, and thought they'd shut me up with an acceptance. Persistence pays off.
The poem is really a fantasy on that icon's genre, rather than ekphrastic per se; though the Atlantic insisted on an illustration. (Which I was worried might cause precisely these kinds of puzzlements--ah me.) They did not use the icon that inspired it, as the Benaki did not have a slide of that one. So the image will definitely differ in particulars. I haven't seen it yet. In Greek icons, Eve's hand/s are not visible, usually swallowed up in voluminous red sleeves.
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04-02-2003, 12:43 AM
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- And congratulations yet again, Alicia!
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04-02-2003, 08:45 AM
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A gleam of hope at the Atlantic! Congratulations, Alicia!
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04-02-2003, 04:14 PM
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The May issue just arrived in my mailbox (oddly, just a week after the April issue), and the advance word is correct... the poem is stunning!
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