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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... violence . This became Jordan's way of embracing Martin Luther King , Jr.'s ideal of the beloved commu- nity and ... violence , such as the kind experienced in her child- hood home , and systemic violence , such as global wars , the ...
... violence and dismiss the horrors of the victimization of homosexuals in movies and the public sphere . Such ideas are further captured in “ Case in Point , ” " Bosnia Bosnia , " " The Bombing of Baghdad , " " Apologies to All the People ...
... violence are attached to her works on the violence of war and the abuse of power , as exemplified in her poem “ War and Memory " and her essays “ South Africa : Bringing it All Back Home ” and “ The Big - Time Coward . " Taken together ...
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A Poets Childhood | 7 |
Two Who Look at Me | 31 |
Poems of Exile and Return | 49 |
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Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Maisha T. Fisher No preview available - 2009 |