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Picasso, I Want My Face Back
Grace Nichols
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Description for Picasso, I Want My Face Back
Paperback. A collection of poems where art, landscape and memory are interwoven. It features reflections that echo the cubistic manner of the painting and allow us to enter the shifting surfaces of Dora Maar's mind and her journey of self reclamation. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 110. 64 pages, illustrations. A collection of poems where art, landscape and memory are interwoven. It features reflections that echo the cubistic manner of the painting and allow us to enter the shifting surfaces of Dora Maar's mind and her journey of self reclamation. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 7. Weight: 110.
Art, landscape and memory are interwoven strands in the fabric of Grace Nichols' Picasso, I Want My Face Back. The collection opens with a long poem in the voice of Dora Maar, who, as Picasso's muse and mistress, was the inspiration for his iconic painting, "The Weeping Woman". The poems are almost interlocking reflections that echo the cubistic manner of the painting and allow us to enter the shifting surfaces of Dora Maar's mind and her journey of self reclamation.
Art, landscape and memory are interwoven strands in the fabric of Grace Nichols' Picasso, I Want My Face Back. The collection opens with a long poem in the voice of Dora Maar, who, as Picasso's muse and mistress, was the inspiration for his iconic painting, "The Weeping Woman". The poems are almost interlocking reflections that echo the cubistic manner of the painting and allow us to enter the shifting surfaces of Dora Maar's mind and her journey of self reclamation.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
109g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248505
SKU
V9781852248505
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About Grace Nichols
Born in Guyana, Grace Nichols has lived in Britain since 1977. Her first collection, I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Her later poetry collections – published by Virago – include The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984), Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman (1989), Sunris (1996), winner of the Guyana Prize, and Startling the Flying ... Read more
Reviews for Picasso, I Want My Face Back
Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean.
Gwendolyn Brooks Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal.
Jeanette Winterson From her first collection in 1983, I Is a Long Memoried Woman, she has been a strong presence in the linguistic ... Read more
Gwendolyn Brooks Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal.
Jeanette Winterson From her first collection in 1983, I Is a Long Memoried Woman, she has been a strong presence in the linguistic ... Read more