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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... mother's father's sister [ June's great aunt ] . Now this is not to detract from any of June's work because I am ... mother [ Lynne ] here . Why she brought her first , I don't know . I feel that she had a preference for my mother who ...
... mother [ Lynne ] didn't take me , she [ Mildred ] took me . " 28 Even if Mildred wanted to become an artist instead ... mother's silence about the very things she desired , but did not believe she could rightfully experience or ...
... mother in their Brooklyn brownstone . On her mother's alleged suicide , Jordan admits that she wondered about the larger implications of living in this world — the battles one must fight , the unfair rep- resentation that one ...
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 |