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Tyehimba Jess : Olio
FromBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Tyehimba Jess : Olio
FromBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Length:
76 minutes
Released:
Nov 16, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
“This 21st century hymnal of black evolutionary poetry, this almanac, this theatrical melange of miraculous meta-memory. Tyehimba Jess is inventive, prophetic, wondrous. He writes unflinchingly into the historical clefs of blackface, black sound, human sensibility. After the last poem is read we have no idea how long we’ve been on our knees.”—Nikky Finney “Olio is […]
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Released:
Nov 16, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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