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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... Moving Towards Home " organized by poet - activists Sara Miles and Kathy Engel . This 1982 event , ben- efiting UNICEF's humanitarian efforts in Lebanon , brought together various Arab , American , and Israeli poets to talk about the ...
... moving in separate direc- tions , she more toward political involvement . . . . I think I had been more involved in the sixties in the civil rights movement , black power movement , and anti - war movement , a time when June was raising ...
... Moving Towards Home : Political Essays ( London : Virago Press , 1989 ) , 38 . 43. Ibid . 44. Jordan , Civil Wars ... Moving Towards Home , 121 56. Ibid . , 122 . 57. Ibid . 58. Orridge , interview by author . 59. Orridge , interview by ...
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A Poets Childhood | 7 |
Two Who Look at Me | 31 |
Poems of Exile and Return | 49 |
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Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Maisha T. Fisher No preview available - 2009 |