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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... thing , however , is certain : despite Granville's dislike of Uncle Teddy , the two men did have some things in common : fighting , reading , cooking , dressing up , and loving June Jordan , for whom each stressed the importance of ...
... thing wrong with them . They couldn't talk right . They couldn't see straight . They never heard a word you said to them . . . . And another thing , their parents were no good or they were alcoholics or illiterate or , anyhow ...
... things right or wrong " 9 " when they are unjust , harmful , or inhumane . Jordan's love poems express her sexual free- dom as connected to love and politics , and as directly related to her other free- doms : the right to be herself ...
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 |