Taboo. Poems. The Wishbone Trilogyx, Part one

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2004

Komunyakaa, Yusef
Taboo. Poems. The Wishbone Trilogyx, Part one
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2004
Größe: 8°
Seitenzahl: 132 S.
Einband: OBrosch.
Vorl. Spr. Orig.: Englisch
Anthologie
Gedichte/Prosagedichte
Buch
- "With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is a 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." (Farrar Straus Giroux)

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