Olio by Tyehimba Jess

256 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history music poetry reflective slow-paced
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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 ef...

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