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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... desire for social progress ; she also expressed her desire for passionate love through joyful and tumultuous interactions with family members , friends , and colleagues , as well as in her published writing . Jordan's “ GREATEST GIFT ...
... desire to show this to her father coincides with a desire to " stop the silence " that permeates the physical , political , emotional , and sexual realms of human existence . This point is related to the peculiar sensations of “ living ...
... desire for such a collective is similar to Martin Luther King , Jr.'s call for universal love and equality through nonviolent measures . In many ways , Jordan's desire for a rich black aesthetic , inclusive of the voices and realities ...
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 |