Poem: ‘Untitled (51)’

Robin Robertson

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Between 1969 and 1971, Diane Arbus visited a number of ‘retarded schools’ in New Jersey, taking a series of photographs that would eventually be edited and published as Untitled (1995). The lines in italic are the recorded speech of some of the inmates, taken from Arbus’s working notebooks and correspondence (Revelations, 2003).

Vol. 27 No. 21 · 3 November 2005 » Robin Robertson » Poem: ‘Untitled (51)’ (print version)
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