"In Paris With You" by James Fenton (poetry reading)

I lived in Paris for while in the Rue d'Odessa, which is close to the Gare Montparnasse. I liked French girls, because if they liked me they'd to go to bed immediately. I also liked other things about them, their unabashability, their insouciance, their body hair. Irish girls at the time were not so uncomplicated.

You'll recognise the "Dejeuner" by Renoir and "The Lovers" by Picasso. The other paintings are obviously modern. Why obviously? Well, because the artist has a camera with a wide angle lens and paints from photographs The unaided eye doesn't see things in such perspective. http://www.ejpaprocki.com/

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[mudvaynechick]

I love your readings and you've introduced me to new poets. Thank you for being awesome.

[LittleBookNook]

Terrific poem and reading. Thanks

[thallassocracy]

Fenton always manages that wry balance that doesn't take love too seriously, but won't trivialise it either.

I suppose it shouldn't surprise anybody that he also wrote the greatest war poem of the last fifty years ('In a Notebook').