- Publisher
- Wave Books
- First published
- 2016
- Length
- ≈ 256 pages
- Reading time
- 7–9 hours
- ISBN
- 1940696224
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
Olio is a book of poetry that gives voice to the first generation of African Americans freed from slavery. Among the figures who appear in it are Scott Joplin, Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Booker T. Washington and Tom Wiggins. Tyehimba Jess has said he wanted to bring their work together to share their stories and their suffering, and to make a book that each reader would find a different way through.
Source: Olio (poetry collection)
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