Turner: New and Selected Poems by Dabydeen, David

Turner: New and Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781900715683)

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Turner: New and Selected Poems by Dabydeen, David

Turner: New and Selected Poems

$17.95
Turner: New and Selected Poems by Dabydeen, David

Turner: New and Selected Poems

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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David Dabydeen's Turner is a long narrative poem written in response to J. M. W. Turner's celebrated poem "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying." Dabydeen's poem focuses on what is hidden in Turner's painting, the submerged head of the drowning African. In inventing a biography and the drowned man's unspoken desires, the poem brings into confrontation the wish for renewal and the inescapable stains of history, including the meaning of Turner's painting.


Author: David Dabydeen
ISBN-10: 1900715686
ISBN-13: 9781900715683
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2002
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.30w x 0.30d
By David Dabydeen
By David Dabydeen
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David Dabydeen heads the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick. He was born in Guyana, but has lived in the United Kingdom from his early youth. He is the author of the novels The Intended, Disappearance, The Counting House, A Harlot's Progress, and two earlier books of poetry, Slave Song, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and Coolie Odyssey. He is recognized among the United Kingdom's finest writers. He is also the author of The Counting House, A Harlot's Progress, and Hogarth's Blacks: Images of Blacks in 18th Century English Art.

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