R2E Excerpt #44*: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Wallace Stevens handed me the binoculars. But all I did was watch. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

*DEAREST READERS: Don’t you hate it when writers get all harrumph-y about what you’re about to read? I do, and here I am, introducing my introduction! Harrumph! As if you’re too dumb to figure out that this is an excerpt from my forthcoming illustrated memoir, of my own coming-of-age moment in Paris and on The Continent, and that I’m back at it, here, b…