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Unread 04-11-2017, 07:32 PM
Andrew Szilvasy Andrew Szilvasy is offline
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Default Pulitzer Prize to Tyehimba Jess

for Olio. Anyone read this, or anything by him?

http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/tyehimba-jess

Finalists were Cambell McGrath's XX and Adrienne Rich's Collected.
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I've read Leadbelly and taught it in my graduate seminar last year. (Our focus was poetry, pop culture, and flash forms.) It's an excellent book-length sequence and especially fun if you have an interest in American music history, origins of folk/blues, etc. There's lots of stylistic variety: dramatic monologues, prose poems/micro-fictions (depending on your viewpoint), some documentary language/source material, more. I recommend it to anyone with wide tastes & an interest in reading a book that includes some excellent poems and provocative writing in the boundaries between poems & other forms or genres.
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A few of the poems here (scroll down) are from Olio.
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Thanks for the recommendation, Ned. I do really enjoy poets who aren't one-note.
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This is the first I've heard of him. What little I read (thanks Andrew) I like.

This one is powerful:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/90220
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I liked the prose-poem/interview about Scott Joplin. It isn't historically accurate, but it's a story well told.
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