Taboo - Couverture souple

Komunyakaa, Yusef

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374530157 ISBN 13 : 9780374530150

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yusef Komunyakaa's books of poetry include Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth, The Emperor of Water Clocks, Testimony: A Tribute to Charlie Parker, The Chameleon Couch, Warhorses, Taboo, Talking Dirty to the Gods, and Neon Vernacular, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. His plays, performance art, and librettos have been performed internationally and include Wakonda's Dream, Saturnalia, Testimony, and Gilgamesh: A Verse Play. He teaches at New York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374530157
• ISBN 13: 9780374530150
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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