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Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems book cover by Yusef Komunyakaa
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Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems

by Yusef Komunyakaa

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Paperback · 144 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 2006

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Taboo

With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that links slave and master, explorer and native, stranger and brother. In Taboo he examines the role of blacks in Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature. In taut, meticulously crafted three-line stanzas, Rubens paints his wife looking longingly at a black servant; Aphra Behn writes Oroonoko "as if she'd rehearsed it/for years in her spleen"; and in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson is "still/at his neo-classical desk/musing, but we know his mind/is brushing aside abstractions/so his hands can touch flesh." Taboo is the powerful first book in a new trilogy by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.



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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author
Yusef Komunyakaa
Format
Paperback
Published
Mar 21, 2006
ISBN-13
9780374530150
ISBN-10
0374530157
Pages
144
Carton quantity
56 copies
Printing
Printed on demand
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