Grace Nichols: Picasso, I Want My Face Back from dora books Watch Video
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Description: 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 Maar’s mind and her journey of self reclamation. This is an excerpt from a film made by Pamela Robertson-Pearce of Grace Nichols' reading a
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