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Taboo The Wishbone Trilogy, Part 1 (Komunyakaa, Yusef. Wishbone Trilogy)
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Taboo The Wishbone Trilogy, Part 1 (Komunyakaa, Yusef. Wishbone Trilogy) Hardcover - 2004

by Yusef Komunyakaa


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The Paint-Box artists
color in Adam & Eve, using every hue & cry
of temptation. Because God blends into the darkness
the faces keep coming off.--from "Chiaroscuro"
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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  • Title Taboo The Wishbone Trilogy, Part 1 (Komunyakaa, Yusef. Wishbone Trilogy)
  • Author Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 144
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Date August 12, 2004
  • ISBN 9780374291488
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