Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems
by Yusef Komunyakaa
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"In Taboo Yusef Komunyakaa examines the roles of blacks in Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature."--JacketTags
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Intense jazz poetry. More allusions than I could follow and appreciate, but good stuff. I'd like to read his collection that won him a Pulitzer, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems.
Always startled by Komunyakaa's unique images.
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Yusef Komunyakka's eleven books of poems include Thieves of Paradise, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Neon Vernacular, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography)
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