Research Catalog

Title

Olio / Tyehimba Jess.

Author

Jess, Tyehimba

Publication

• Seattle ; New York : Wave Books, 2016.
• Minneapolis, Minnesota : Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.
• ©2016

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Brown, Jessica Lynne
• Clark, Jeff, 1971-
• George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room Collection (Houghton Library) poe
• Wave Books, publisher.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

10 unnumbered pages, 235 pages : illustrations, photographs; 27 cm

Summary

"With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Tyehimba Jess presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, worksongs and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, 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. Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal."--Publisher's website (viewed 05/11/2016).

Series Statement

Wave Books 053

Uniform Title

• Wave Books ; 053.
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• African Americans > Poetry
• Freed persons > United States > Poetry
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Poetry

Genre/Form

• American poetry – 21st century.
• American poetry – African American authors.
• Poetry
• History
• History.
• Poetry.

Note

• Poems.
• Limited edition hardcover edition consists of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author.
• Designed and composed by Quemadura [Jeff Clark].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-230).

Biography (note)

• "Detroit native Tyehimba Jess’ first book of poetry, leadbelly, was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005.” Jess, a Cave Canem and NYU alumnus, received a 2004 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a 2004-2005 Winter Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Jess is also a veteran of the 2000 and 2001 Green Mill Poetry Slam Team, and won a 2000 – 2001 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, the 2001 Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Award, and a 2006 Whiting Fellowship. He exhibited his poetry at the 2011 TEDxNashville Conference. Olio, his next book of fiction and poetry in 2016, is forthcoming from Wave Books in April 2016. Jess is an Associate Professor of English at College of Staten Island."--Publisher's website (viewed 05/11/2016).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Awards (note)

• Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2017.

Contents

• Introduction -- Fisk jubilee proclamation -- Julius Monroe Trotter submission to The crisis -- Jubilee blues -- Blind Tom plays for Confederate troops, 1863 -- General James Bethune and John Bethune introduce Blind Tom -- What marked Tom? -- Mark Twain v. Blind Tom -- Blind Tom plays for a packed house, 1873 -- Millie McKoy & Christine McKoy recall meeting Blind Tom, 1877 -- What the wind, rain, and thunder said to Tom -- General Bethune v. W. C. Handy, 1885 -- Charity on Blind Tom -- Eliza Bethune v. Charity Wiggins -- General Bethune on Blind Tom -- Duet: Blind Boone meets Blind Tom, 1889 -- Blind Tom plays on... -- Blind Tom: one body, two graves; Brooklyn/Georgia -- Jubilee: Isaac Dickerson (1852-1900) -- Interview: Della Marie Jenkins, RN -- Jubilee: Eliza Walker (1857-?) -- Millie and Christine McKoy -- Millie-Christine: on display -- Millie-Christine are kidnapped -- Millie-Christine's love story -- Millie-Christine buy land -- McKoy twins syncopated star / step right up... -- Jubilee: Ben Holmes (1846-1875) -- Interview: Sam Patterson -- Jubilee: Minnie Tate (1857-?) -- Mirror of slavery/mirror chicanery --
• Pre/face: Berryman/Brown -- Freedsong: dream gone -- Freedsong: dream dawn -- Freedsong: so long! (duet) -- Freedsong: dream long -- Freedsong: of 1850 -- Freedsong: dream wronged -- Freedsong: dream of my son -- Freedsong: fream strong -- Freedsong: of 1876 -- Freedsong: dream song -- Jubilee: George White (1838-1895) -- Interview: John William "Blind" Boone -- Jubilee: Maggie Porter (1853-1942) -- Apparition in C -- Roots of Boone -- Apparition in E♭-- Blind Boone's blessings -- Apparition in F -- Blind Boone's vision -- Apparition in F♯ -- Blind Boone's escape -- Apparition in G -- Blind Boone's rage -- Apparition in B♭ -- Blind Boone's pianola blues -- Apparition in C -- Jubilee: Greene Evans (1848-1914) -- Interview: Carmen LeDieux -- Jubilee: Ella Sheppard (1851-1914) -- Bert Williams/George Walker paradox: the Witmark amateur minstrel guide -- All coons look alike to me! 1 -- Coon songs must go!/Coon songs go on (1) -- All coons look alike to me! 2 -- Coon songs must go!/Coon songs go on (2) -- All coons look alike to me! 3 -- Coon songs must go!/Coon songs go on (3) -- Dunbar-Booker double shovel: table 2-3/table 2-5 --
• Jubilee: Thomas Rutling (1854?-1915) -- Interview: Lottie Joplin, part 1 -- Jubilee: Jennie Jackson (1852-1910) -- WPA interview: E. Shoe -- My name is Sissieretta Jones -- WPA interview: E. Shoe -- Sissieretta Jones, Carnegie Hall, 1902, O patria mia -- WPA interview: E. Shoe -- Sissieretta Jones: ad libitum -- WPA interview: E. Shoe -- Sissieretta Jones & the Black Patti Troubadours: forte/grazioso -- WPA interview: E. Shoe -- Jubilee indigo -- Interview: Lottie Joplin, part 2 -- Berlin v. Joplin: Alexander's real slow drag -- Jubilee mission -- Alabaster hands -- Forever free -- Hagar in the wilderness -- Hiawatha -- The death of Cleopatra -- Indian combat -- Minnehaha -- Colonel Robert Gould Shaw -- Edmonia Lewis: provenance -- We've sung each free day like it's salvation -- Last letter home -- Appendix -- Presenting: the Dunbar-Booker double shovel -- Presenting: the Bert Williams/George Walker paradox -- Step right up! Henry "Box" Brown facing/evading slave catcher dream on ... duet -- Notes on jubilee and syncopated sonnets -- The Trotter interviews -- Olio timeline -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Thanks.

ISBN

• 9781940696225 (limited edition hardcover)
• 9781940696201 (paperback)

OCLC

• 913572962
• SCSB-11041205

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library