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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... poet E. Ethelbert Miller , musician Adrienne Torf , and countless activists , teachers , and students provide ... poet's following lines : I wasn't too happy about maybe having to choose between having brains and being pretty . I ...
... poet's mother , is equally difficult to understand . Unlike her husband , who taught himself to read and write , Mildred had completed her high - school studies before moving to the U.S. mainland at the request of her mother , Mrs ...
... poet's lifelong opposition to systemic control and unjust political struggles , as alluded to in the poem , are rooted in her early protests against colonialism . Her support of Agostinho Neto , the first president of the People's ...
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 |