{"product_id":"olio","title":"Olio","description":"-WINNER OF 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD IN POETRY -WINNER OF SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD IN POETRY-BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO PUBLISHING CITATION -2016 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for poetry\n-2017 PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award finalist\n-2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award finalist\n-Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal\n\nPart 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.\n\nSo, while I lead this choir, I still find that\nI'm being led...I'm a missionary\nmending my faith in the midst of this flock...\nI toil in their fields of praise. When folks see\nthese freedmen stand and sing, they hear their God\nspeak in tongues. These nine dark mouths sing shelter;\nthey echo a hymn's haven from slavery's weather.\n\nDetroit native Tyehimba Jess is a Cave Canem and NYU Alumni, and 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, and received a 2016 Lannan Literary Award. Jess is an Associate Professor of English at College of Staten Island.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1940696208\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1940696208.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Jess, Tyehimba\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41632748306490,"sku":"DBV.1940696208.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1940696208-0.jpg?v=1788578230","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/olio","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}