June Jordan: Her Life and LettersJune Jordan was born on July 9, 1936, in Harlem, New York, to Mildred and Granville Jordan, Jamaican natives. During her life, she became one of the most prolific, important, and influential African American writers of her time. Before her death from breast cancer in 2002, Jordan published more than 27 books, including Some of Us Did Not Die, Solider: A Poet's Childhood, Poetry for the People: Finding a Voice through Verse, Haruko Love Poems, and Naming Our Destiny. Her work Civil Wars, a collection of letters and essays, addressed such topics as violence, homosexuality, race, and black feminism. Working in many genres and touching on many themes and issues, Jordan was a powerful force in American literature. This biography reveals the woman, the writer, the poet, the activist, the leader, and the educator in all her complexity. |
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... Jordan's political resistances and outspoken poetic voice are directly con- nected to her teaching , writing , and activism of the 1970s and 1980s . In her essay " Thinking About My Poetry , 1977 , " Jordan writes about her decision ...
... Jordan writes of how the media purposefully ignore the organizing efforts of communities of color . She writes , " At the end of the 1960s , American mass media rolled the cameras away from Black life and the quantity of print on the ...
... Jordan , His Own Where ( New York : Crowell Company , 1971 ) , 1 . 41. Torf , interview by author . 42. Jordan ... writes , “ After sickness and a begging / from her bed / my mother dressed herself / grey - laced oxfords ... / she ...
Contents
A Poets Childhood | 7 |
Two Who Look at Me | 31 |
Poems of Exile and Return | 49 |
Copyright | |
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Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Maisha T. Fisher No preview available - 2009 |