Grace Nichols: Picasso, I Want My Face Back

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Grace Nichols reads extracts from 'Weeping Woman', her long poem in the voice of Dora Maar, who as Pablo Picasso's muse and mistress, was the inspiration for his iconic painting, 'Weeping Woman' (1937). The parts of the poem are almost interlocking reflections that echo the cubistic manner of the painting and allow us to enter the shifting surfaces of Dora Maars mind and her journey of self reclamation. This is an excerpt from a film made by Pamela Robertson-Pearce of Grace Nichols' reading at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts on 27 October 2009, which included ten of the poem's twenty parts. 'Weeping Woman' is published in full in PICASSO, I WANT MY FACE BACK (Bloodaxe Books, 2009): http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepag
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