lingering memory traces of artist Salvador Dali

Dreams of Fields

Above Book cover for Dreams of Fields: Memory Traces of Iowa's Past, essays by Roy R. Behrens. Ice Cube Press, 2025. The portrait on the cover is that of surrealist artist Salvador Dali, who spoke at the University of Northern Iowa in 1952, as described in one of the essays.

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James Thurber

The naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts.