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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... Torf , entitled June Jordan and Adrienne Torf : COLLABORATION , Selected Works , 1983-2000 . The compilation includes selections on South Africa ( Every Night , Winnie Mandela and Song for Soweto ) , Nicaragua ( Dance : Nicaragua ) ...
... Torf . Joseph Papp , founder of the Public Theater in New York City , and Leonard Bernstein , American music composer and conductor , encouraged Jordan and Torf to extend their early collaborative work into a fully developed story , and ...
... Torf informs me of aspects of the political landscape in America when she , Jordan , and the cast members committed themselves to stage the production . In 1984 in Concord , California — a town in the San Francisco Bay Area— “ a ...
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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 |