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Article: The poet and the painter: author David Francis finds surprising familiarity in the relationship between painter Salvador Dali and poet Federico Garcia Lorca, brought to life in the new film Little Ashes.(SPECTATOR: Viewpoint)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I was in Paris on a writing fellowship. I was searching for inspiration when I discovered a poem by the celebrated and gay Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. It was his "Ode to Salvador Dali": Art is not the light that blinds our eyes--it's love ... painted like a game of snakes and ladders. After reading the piece, I stared out from my studio window to the Centre de Danse across the street, where a young dancer suspended French ballerinas--one and then another. He stared back.
When we met in the street later that afternoon, he told me his name was Olivier, that he'd been a young music star in Cameroon, and ...