KOMUNYAKAA, Yusef. Taboo.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
 
8vo.; in black boards; with dust-jacket; signs of wear and rubbing to edges; an excellent copy.
 
First edition. With Muldoon’s ownership inscription.
 
In Taboo, Komunyakaa “examines the role of Blacks in Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature” (publisher). The historical figures who make appearances in these poems include Rubens, Aphra Behn, and Thomas Jefferson.