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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Komunyakaa, Yusef. Wishbone trilogy ; pt. 1.
Subjects:
Blacks > Poetry.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Lingo
  • Imhotep
  • Aghribat al-Arab
  • Henry the Navigator
  • Other worlds
  • Bacchanal
  • Astraea's footnotes
  • Queen Marie-Therèse & Nabo
  • Lament & praise song
  • Sunset in Surinam
  • Monticello
  • Unframing a triptych
  • Captain Amasa Delano's dilemma
  • Before the windows
  • Double exposure
  • King of the octave
  • The price of blood
  • The quadroon's masque ball
  • Antebellum silhouettes
  • Tobe's blues
  • Othello's robe
  • Jeanne Duval's confession
  • Hagar's daughter
  • Chiaroscuro
  • Nude study
  • Trueblood's blues
  • Satchmo, USA
  • Cante jondo
  • The house
  • To beauty
  • Daddy Red
  • Twilight seduction
  • Homage to a bellhop
  • Forgive & live
  • Séance & shadowplay
  • Lustration
  • Lucumi
  • Oil
  • At the Red Sea
  • In line at the bank
  • Troubling the water
  • Netherworlds
  • Lingua franca
  • The archivist
  • Desecration
  • Outside the Blue Nile.