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Olio
Contributor(s): Jess, Tyehimba (Author)

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ISBN: 1940696208     ISBN-13: 9781940696201
Publisher: Wave Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - African American
- Music | History & Criticism - General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2015026171
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 8" W x 9.9" L (1.30 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/15/2016
Library Journal 03/01/2016 pg. 105
 
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Publisher Description:
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

Winner of the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry

Winner of the 2017 Book Award from the Society of Midland Authors for Poetry

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for poetry

2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award finalist

2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award finalist

Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal

Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them.

So, while I lead this choir, I still find that
I'm being led...I'm a missionary
mending my faith in the midst of this flock...
I toil in their fields of praise. When folks see
these freedmen stand and sing, they hear their God
speak in tongues. These nine dark mouths sing shelter;
they echo a hymn's haven from slavery's weather.

Detroit native Tyehimba Jess' first book of poetry, leadbelly, was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Jess, a Cave Canem and NYU Alumni, has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Jess is also a veteran of the 2000 and 2001 Green Mill Poetry Slam Team. He exhibited his poetry at the 2011 TEDxNashville Conference. Jess is an Associate Professor of English at College of Staten Island.


 
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