Turner: New and Selected Poems

Name: Turner: New and Selected Poems
Author: David Dabydeen
ISBN: 9781900715683

Author David Dabydeen

Publisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

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Author(s)David Dabydeen

PublisherPeepal Tree Press Ltd.

ISBN / ASIN1900715686

ISBN-139781900715683

MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷

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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.