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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... City College of the City University of New York , located at 138th Street and Convent Avenue in Harlem . On the faculty in the college's English department were the poets and writers , Audre Lorde , Toni Cade Bambara , Adrienne Rich ...
... city where her explorations began : Jackson , Mississippi . Here , she met Ed Cole , Director of Economic ... York City with the experience of facing and interrogating some of her fears as related to her black female , mother , poet ...
... York Times , listed date is April 29 , 1973 , http://www.proquest.com or http : // pqasb . pqarchiver.com/nytimes/97135122.html?did=97135122&FMT=ABS&FMTS=Al&date = Apr + 29 % 2C + 1973 & author = By + ALICE + WALKER & pub = New + York ...
Contents
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 |