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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... struggle to live is embed- ded in one's struggle to win . This latter message , especially , is evident in the creation of the June Jordan Poetry for the People Collective at the University of California , Berkeley in the early 1990s ...
... struggle to determine and then preserve a particular , human voice [ which ] is closely related to the historic struggling of black life in America . " " 41 This " historic " struggle comes through vividly in the poems included in ...
... struggle to obtain civil rights . So why not sing so as to continue to live ? This question points to the poem's employment of " Blackman Blacklove " and " Blacklove Blackman ” in ways that acknowledge " my brother , " the historical ...
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 |