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Tyehimba Jess

Auteur de Olio

6+ oeuvres 340 utilisateurs 12 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Tyehimba Jess received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in fine arts from New York University. He is a poet. His books include leadbelly and Olio, which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2017. (Bowker Author Biography)

Œuvres de Tyehimba Jess

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male
Professions
poet
Prix et distinctions
Whiting Writers' Award (2006)

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Beautiful and not like anything I've read before.
 
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ninagl | 1 autre critique | Jan 7, 2023 |
August 2019 (Audible Original, maybe June/July);

This was a lovely, audio journey experience, with far more pieces read and performed in concert. I hadn't expected the format, but I loved the live stage performance feel and definitely felt the shifts in focus with the reinterpretations each time.
 
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wanderlustlover | 1 autre critique | Dec 27, 2022 |
Loved this book. I had never seen most of the photos and other documentation. Together with informative text, gave me a much better view of a man who's been a favorite of mine since I discovered him in high school 50 years ago.
 
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HenrySt123 | Jul 19, 2021 |
Serendipitously read this during Black History Month. This book defies description because it is such a complex blend of art forms - poetry, drawings, historical documents, shaped verse, and other genres all brought together seamlessly to represent African-American performers from the end of the Civil War until WWI who became minstrel performers by choice or by force. According to the publisher's blurb, "Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them." This seeks to honor them and their experiences. Running throughout is the attempts by Julius Trotter to obtain information about Scott Joplin to submit to WEB DuBois' NAACP magazine, the Crisis. That's some name-dropping right there, but there are other examples of well-known people mixed in with fictional characters. It reminded me of Spoon River Anthology - in that each poem represents a character but this is much more ambitious and far-reaching. According to the frontispiece, an olio is a miscellaneous mixture of heterogeneous elements; a hodgepodge, a miscellaneous collection (as of literary or musical selections) and also the second part of a minstrel show. This book somehow represents all of these definitions. I'm always amazed and impressed when authors can envision a completely fresh presentation of material in a completely new form. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize - I can see why!… (plus d'informations)
 
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CarrieWuj | 6 autres critiques | Oct 24, 2020 |

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Œuvres
6
Aussi par
13
Membres
340
Popularité
#70,096
Évaluation
½ 4.4
Critiques
12
ISBN
5

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