Turner: New and Selected Poems

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.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: 09/01/2002
ISBN: 9781900715683
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.30w x 0.30d