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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... connected to how he encountered the world as a nonwhite , or raced , immigrant man who could have traveled between the limiting worlds of black and white based on appearance . In her popular memoir , Soldier : A Poet's Childhood ...
... connected and , therefore , all such forms of injustice should be eradi- cated : " The difference between South Africa and rape , " Jordan once stated , " and my mother trying to change my face and my father wanting me to be a boy was ...
... connected to writer R. D. Laing's assertion on the nature of human experience . In Politics of Experience , which was one of Jordan's favorite texts , Laing writes , " for the experience of the other is not evident to me , as it is not ...
Contents
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 |