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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... become a nurse : " I became a nurse like my aunt , who was like a surrogate mother . Even when I went to the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing . . . my mother [ Lynne ] didn't take me , she [ Mildred ] took me . " 28 Even if Mildred ...
... become competitively fluent in English ? " She answers these questions by turning to bilingual education as a successful method to teach academic - based knowledge and critical skills to students . Acknowledging the changing ...
... becoming free . This would allow her to join with other people in an attempt to move toward home by muddying racial and religious categories : " I was born a Black woman / and now / I am become a Palestinian . " 80 Jordan's poems make ...
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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 |