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This thread is for comments about The Bather, by Joanne Merriam
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Another lovely Merriam poem...I was looking forward to it when it was announced last week.
Thanks for including a reference.
I enjoy allusions, but only if I get them!
Is this the picture?
http://www.eyeconart.net/history/Impressionism/RenoirBather.jpg
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Joanne, your use of language is so precise and beautiful. You don't waste words.
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JoanneMerriam
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Moderators, I can only get to this page from the forum menu. When I click the link under the poem itself, I get "We cannot proceed. Access Denied."
Anonymous, thanks.
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Is this the picture?
http://www.eyeconart.net/history/Impressionism/RenoirBather.jpg
Actually, this is the one I had in mind: http://www.abcgallery.com/R/renoir/renoir183.html
I don't really think it matters, though. There are any number of paintings I could have been talking about (including a bunch of others by Renoir like Bather Arranging Her Hair and Bather Admiring Herself In The Water) - the subject of a nude woman ostensibly unaware of her audience the painter, who nonetheless arranges herself in such a way as to cover herself just so (with a stray bit of hair, or a winding cloth, or a thigh held at just the right angle), amuses me greatly, and I was playing more with that theme as it shows up throughout the Western tradition rather than really focusing narrowly on that one painting. So the painting you picked out is just as good for my purposes.
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Jed Hartman
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Sorry for the broken link; fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out!
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... the subject of a nude woman ostensibly unaware of her audience the painter, who nonetheless arranges herself in such a way as to cover herself just so (with a stray bit of hair, or a winding cloth, or a thigh held at just the right angle), amuses me greatly, and I was playing more with that theme as it shows up throughout the Western tradition ...
Hmm. Austin Powers?
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