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 ...
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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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The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. Hardcover Book, Very good condition, but may have some minor wear to the cover or dust jacket, Pages are clean with little to no markings. May have name or inscription inside cover, Email with questions, Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request. Fast Shipping Monday Through Saturday! -Safe and Secure!
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Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Book 0374291489 First Edition, First printing. Not inscribed or otherwise marked. Complete # line 10987654321. Dust jacket in protective cover securely wrapped and shipped in a box. F/F.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free. POETRY-Rear-Stacks.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet and Author Yusef Komunyakaa, in person. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 132 p. Wishbone Trilogy, Part 1. Audience: General/trade. A Fine, as New, copy, clean, tight, and unread, in a Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition-First Printing with a full number line ending with a 1. Signed and dated on the Title page, by Multi Award Winning Author Yusef Komunyakaa, in person, during a Professor/Author event at New York University on November 18, 2018. Since, Yusef was in the process of recovering from a stroke effecting his dominant right side, he kindly signed and dated this book writing with his left hand. An event announcement will be included. In "Taboo-The Wishbone Trilogy Part One" Yusef examines the role of blacks in Western history, and how theses role are portrayed in art and literature; employing taut, meticulously crafted three line stanzas. Rest assured, this collectible copy is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
