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'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulneable and clean' - GWENDOLYN BROOKS. 'Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal' - JEANETTE WINTERSON. 'Grace Nichols came to Britain from Guyana at the age of 17 and she has carried the warmth of her Caribbean sensibility through many a cold English winter. Her poems celebrate sensuality and generosity and attack petty mean-spiritedness - Deeply Caribbean in sensibility, she writes sensitively of other traditions, especially Africa and India' - PETER FORBES, Contemporary Writers. 'From her first collection in 1983, I Is a Long Memoried Woman, she has been a strong presence in the linguistic interweave between the Caribbean and the UK. Her poetry and prose move easily between the poised world of Western culture, Old World history and myth, and the gritty rhythms of the Caribbean everyday - There is wit, irony and passion - real poise' - MICHELENE WANDOR, Poetry Review.
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Art, landscape and memory are interwoven strands in the fabric of Grace Nichols' latest collection, "Picasso, I Want My Face Back". The book 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.
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Grace Nichols speaks through the voice of Dora Maar, Pablo Picasso's lover and inspiration
17 April 2010
Format:Paperback
Picasso's work meant more than being just weird. "Picasso, I Want My Face Back" is a collection of poetry from Grace Nichols as she speaks through the voice of Dora Maar, Pablo Picasso's lover and inspiration. The intriguing angle to Picasso makes for unique poems well worth reading, making "Picasso, I Want My Face Back" a top poetry pick. "Seven Sisters": Seven sisters standing/shoulder to chalky shoulder --/Seven sisters huddling to Sussex mist/open-armed to sun's expansive kiss/yet straight and firm as Victorian maidens/all kin to Dover - the green-shawled/grandmother of all cliffs.
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