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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... silence . For Jordan , her mother's silence was not just a part of her devotion to God and the Holy Spirit , but also a consequence of Mildred's familial interactions , especially with her suppos- edly abusive husband . Interestingly ...
... silence , according to Jordan , was never transformed into either action against her hus- band or physical protection of her daughter . In " The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action , ” feminist writer Audre Lorde writes ...
... silence from infiltrating her adult life , her memories of her mother and father , and her work to dismantle the very struc- tures that maintain inequality and human silence . The poet used convincingly sophisticated language in ...
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 |