Dolly Parton’s Song Roars with Need / And Envy

Curiosities
April 17, 2017

The University of Tennessee will offer history students a seminar on Dolly Parton’s life, so this is as good a time as any to revisit Sherman Alexie’s poem, “Ode to Jolene.”

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