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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... death : Did Mildred really kill herself , or did the violence within her home and in New York City kill her ? Was she too weak to give in to a natural and slow death , or so strong that she decided to capture death before death captured ...
... death . Jordan does not shy away from con- fronting the dilemmas of life - abuse , injustice , and death - nor does she shy away from addressing the quandaries of political struggle - censorship , aban- donment , and death . She ...
... death . As discussed throughout this book , June Jordan's political and creative interests spanned from New York City to the Bahamas , and from the Middle East to California and Lebanon , among other places , and took the forms of ...
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 |