A Portrait in Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
writers have to have two countries the one where they belong and the one in which they live really Gertrude Stein Paris France
27 RUE DE FLEURUS The next time you go to Paris you might visit this big green spot on your map the Luxembourg Gardens or Jardin du Luxembourg And right there in the middle of the garden is an eight sided pond where you can rent a tiny sailboat and set it adrift over and over again
Just west of the pond is a little street or as French people say a rue Rue de Fleurus it's called And there at 27 rue de Fleurus is a place that once was filled with paintings bright bold wild impossible paintings And in that place lived a woman named Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo And later on her partner Alice
