Skywatch Friday... Blue Sky over the Place de la Comédie

Blue sky over the Place de la Comédie at dusk. Photo taken last Monday on my way to Marie-Christine Harant's "salon" where I was going to attend a poetic performance by NaTYoT .

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Ciel encore bleu au crépuscule. Photo de la Comédie prise lundi dernier, 18 mars 2013. Je me rendais au salon littéraire hebdomadaire chez Marie-Christine Harant. Pour une première fois, j'ai été gâtée puisque j'ai eu la chance d'assister à une lecture musicale des poèmes très féminins-féministes de NatYot. 

Lundi prochain, c'est Fabienne Larrivière qui vient présenter ses pierres....

When you are truly old, beside the evening candle,
Sitting by the fire, winding wool and spinning,
Murmuring my verses, you’ll marvel then, in saying,
‘Long ago, Ronsard sang me, when I was beautiful.’
Pierre de Ronsard, Sonnets Pour Helene, Book II: XLIII)
On Poetry in translation

Je pense que mes amis francophones connaissent ça par coeur.

FREDERIC JACQUES TEMPLE

Frédéric Jacques Temple is "the" great poet of Montpellier and a great lover of America and American literature. I could attend the last "rencontre" organized by the Médiathèque Emile Zola about Temple "as an American poet" last week.

Temple's poems were read by Denis Lavant, a French actor (certainly one of the best French actors) who played with Juliette Binoche (if you are interested in Lavant's art, go to YouTube!).

Frédéric Jacques Temple est "le" grand poète actuel de Montpellier. Temple est aussi un grand amoureux de l'Amérique et de la littérature américaine. J'ai pu assister à la dernière des rencontres organisées autour de Temple, "poète américain", la semaine dernière. J'aurais assisté à toutes les rencontres si j'avais été à Montpellier le mois dernier. 

Les poèmes ont été lus par Denis Lavant, un très grand comédien (simple et aimable  aussi) , qui a bien voulu poser pour moi à la fin. Denis Lavant a joué avec Binoche. On peut voir de nombreux extraits de ses films sur YouTube. 

JE NE SAIS PAS CE QUI SE PASSE AVEC BLOGGER MAIS JE NE PARVIENS PLUS A MODIFIER LA TAILLE DE MES PHOTOS ET JE DETESTE CE CADRE QUI S'AJOUTE AUTOUR D'ELLES SANS QUE J'AIE RIEN DEMANDE. 

HIER J'AI VOULU AIDER UNE DE MES AMIES A CREER SON BLOG. ON NE PEUT PLUS TROUVER LES ANCIENS MODELES!!!!!!!!!!! QUE SE PASSE-T-IL?????????

Music and Poetry

As regards culture, we are lucky in Montpellier. We are spoiled! on last Friday I attended a wonderful "spectacle" of music and poetry at the Médiathèque Emile Zola.

Poet Denis Hirson and very beautiful actress Sonia Emmanuel read poems by South-African poets, and by Denis Hirson himself. The readings were punctuated by the music of Steve Potts, a very well-known musician who was born in Ohio but has lived in Paris for a long time. He plays the saxophone and the clarinet (at times both instruments at the same time).

This was a great evening. A lady in the audience said it was "sublime." I agree with her. It was one of the most beautiful cultural events I ever attended. Just perfect.

Today March 10th is my son Greg's birthday. I sent him an e-card this morning but I have not heard from him yet. Birthdays were funnier and happier when he and his brother were little children.

Patrick Dubost

You are going to think that I have strange ideas, maybe. I like this photo of poet Patrick Dubost whom I heard reading some of his poems last Thursday. I like the composition, the geometry, the colors, the light, the poet's right hand :-) and the lines he was declaiming in a very particular way, accompanied by a musician.

Actually this photo was not taken in Montpellier but in Lodève (40 minutes from Montpellier). I am cheating a little, again. Patrick Dubost was the poet I liked best at the festival of poetry called "Les Voix de la Méditerranée."

The other poets I heard were from foreign countries. They read some of their poems in their mother tongue and then somebody read a translation. That was rather boring. I think some poems should not be translated.