Olio (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry
2016 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Poetry
Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal

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 ...