Book
Olio / Tyehimba Jess.
Record details
- ISBN: 1940696208 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781940696201 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781940696225 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1940696224 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781940696201 (softcover)
- ISBN: 1940696208 (softcover)
- Physical Description: 235 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Seattle : Wave Books, [2016]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-230). |
| Summary, etc.: | "Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's...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"--Amazon.com. |
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| Genre: | American poetry > African American authors. American poetry > 21st century. Poetry. |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at Bibliomation.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | 811 JESS (Text) | 34000081263774 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | 811 JES (Text) | 34014138149464 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | 811.6 JES (Text) | 34005126111011 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Somers Public Library | 811.6 JES (Text) | 34042140072937 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Olio
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Olio
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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