Taboo
By: Yusef Komunyakaa.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The wishbone trilogy ;; pt. 1
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Blacks -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "In Taboo Yusef Komunyakaa examines the roles of blacks in Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Lingo; title: Imhotep; title: Aghribat al-Arab; title: Henry the Navigator; title: Other worlds; title: Bacchanal; title: Astraea's footnotes; title: Queen Marie-Therèse & Nabo; title: Lament & praise song; title: Sunset in Surinam; title: Monticello; title: Unframing a triptych; title: Captain Amasa Delano's dilemma; title: Before the windows; title: Double exposure; title: King of the octave; title: The price of blood; title: The quadroon's masque ball; title: Antebellum silhouettes; title: Tobe's blues; title: Othello's robe; title: Jeanne Duval's confession; title: Hagar's daughter; title: Chiaroscuro; title: Nude study; title: Trueblood's blues; title: Satchmo, USA; title: Cante jondo; title: The house; title: To beauty; title: Daddy Red; title: Twilight seduction; title: Homage to a bellhop; title: Forgive & live; title: Séance & shadowplay; title: Lustration; title: Lucumi; title: Oil; title: At the Red Sea; title: In line at the bank; title: Troubling the water; title: Netherworlds; title: Lingua franca; title: The archivist; title: Desecration; title: Outside the Blue Nile.