Turner: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

David Dabydeen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900715686 ISBN 13: 9781900715683

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, 2003

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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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"

Synopsis:

David Dabydeen's 'Turner' is a long narrative poem written in response to J.M.W. Turner's celebrated painting Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead & 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, including the resisted temptation to fabricate an idyllic past, the poem brings into confrontation the wish for renewal and the inescapable stains of history, including the meaning of Turner's painting. 'Turner' was first published in 1994. In addition to 'Turner', this collection includes selections from two earlier books: Slave Song (1984) and Coolie Odyssey (1988).

About this edition

• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1900715686
• ISBN 13: 9781900715683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84