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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... movements for and over rights : the Civil Rights Movement , the Women's Rights Movement , the Black Arts Movement , and movements against war . These are but a few of the many political causes that , in some way , influenced her art and ...
... Movement and the successor of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement of the 1920s , the Black Arts Movement stimulated black - owned businesses , including theater troupes , magazines , journals , bookstores , and publishing ...
... movement representative of the widely varied experiences of women , men , and children , including black and immigrant people like her parents . This collective would revolutionize and internationalize the black protest movement in its ...
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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 |