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Turner: New and Selected Poems

Turner: New and Selected Poems

by David Dabydeen (Author)

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    Paperback 1994

    $3.25

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    Paperback 2003

    $3.39
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 74
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 21 Apr 1994
ISBN 10: 0224038958
ISBN 13: 9780224038959

Media Reviews
A major poem, full of lyricism and compassion, which gracefully shoulders the burden of history and introduces us to voices from the past whose pain we have all inherited. Caryl Phillips
David Dabydeen s poetry vibrates with passion, energy and splendid rhythm. Anita Desai
Author Bio
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.