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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... experiences in Mississippi and on her encounters with Dr. Aaron Henry and Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer . Her reflections resulted in her early return to New York City from Rome , as well as the completion of an unpublished manual for land ...
... experiences . Jordan's poems enter into a public space that encourages people to utilize the language of their lives in forging intersecting and overlapping relationships with others . The poems in Some Changes , which signify a wealth ...
... experience , because although I do not experience your experience , which is invisible to me ... yet I experience you as experiencing . Jordan sought to understand other people's experiences by “ experiencing ” how people are connected ...
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 |