Olio
By: Jess, Tyehimba
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TextPublisher: Wave Books 2016Subject(s): Poetry | History | Black History | Black Poets | Pulitzer Prize WinnersAwards: Pulitzer PrizeSummary: 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.
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Spark Central Poetry | POETRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31214000001032 |
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| POETRY Birthday Letters | POETRY Deaf Republic | POETRY The Man Suit | POETRY Olio | POETRY Poetry Out Loud : National Recitation Contest | POETRY How to Be Drawn | POETRY Overpour |
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.
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