Olio
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1940696208
ISBN-13
9781940696201
Publisher
Wave Books
Imprint
Wave Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 19th, 2016
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
586 grams
Dimensions
25.00 x 20.50 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry by individual poets
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With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Jess presents the sweat and story behind America's blues, worksongs and church hymns.
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.
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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