{"product_id":"taboo-the-wishbone-trilogy-part-one-poems-paperback","title":"Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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 \u003ci\u003eTaboo\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eTaboo\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e's eleven books of poems include \u003ci\u003eTalking Dirty to the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2000) and \u003ci\u003eNeon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at Princeton University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.24 x 5.64 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762301763872,"sku":"9780374530150","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a83e2fc9fc23e31adff77545cde04632.webp?v=1780219072","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/taboo-the-wishbone-trilogy-part-one-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}