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- English
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The Woman Who Always Loved Picasso
About this book
Marie-Thérèse Walter was seventeen when she met Picasso. He was forty-six. These poems - as simple and direct as quick sketches - use her voice to tell the story of the relationship with Picasso and what it meant to her from its first beginnings, until the day on which she took her own life, three years after his death.
The poems illuminate his love for a woman who was, as John Berger says, 'the sexually most important affair of his life'; they also, perhaps, make sense of Marie-Thérèse's love for him.
Jeff Fisher's drawings animate the vivid voice of Marie-Thérèse, created with great immediacy by Julia Blackburn.
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It was as if
my heart had
tumbled
down through
the blood red
cavity
of my chest,
to land
and settle
like a nesting bird
beating its wings
between my legs.
‘This is love,’ he said.
‘Yes,’ I replied,
‘this is love.’
I was on the other side of a plate-glass door
and as I swung it open
and stepped out onto the street
he came up to me
very close.
.
He said he had seen me as a painting
now he needed to study my face
more carefully,
I must meet him the next day
he was Picasso.
The name meant nothing to me.
He took me to a bookshop
where he was in the window
on the cover of a book
written in Japanese.
I laughed.
I told him I liked
the black and red
silk tie
he wore.
He gave it to me.
I kept it safe
for the rest of my life.
I reminded him
of his younger sister
Maria.
She had blond hair
like his father,
although in the photos
the father’s hair does not look blond,
nor does the sister’s hair look blond
except in comparison
with the blackness
of his hair.
Maria died of diphtheria
when she was five
and he was ten.
It was the year in which a cure
had been found,
but for her it was too late.
At her bedside
he made a vow:
if she lived
he ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- 1. Bird
- 2. Hands
- 3. Hair
- 4. Pots
- 5. Camera
- 6. Pencil
- 7. Horsehair
- 8. Water
- 9. Ball, box
- 10. Sleep
- 11. Cigarette
- 12. River
- 13. Candle
- 14. Sofa
- 15. Bodies
- 16. Solitary
- 17. Dance
- 18. List
- 19. Watch
- 20. Dog
- 21. Illness
- 22. Picture
- 23. Maya Maar
- 24. Silence
- 25. Hunger
- 26. Clothes
- 27. Maya
- 28. Distance
- 29. Desire
- 30. Fruit
- 31. Line
- 32. Washing
- 33. Bird
- 34. Paintings
- 35. Path
- 36. Telephone
- 37. Bleach
- 38. Child
- 39. Castle
- 40. Weight
- 41. Bird
- 42. Last Words
- Note
- Bibliography