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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... Women Writers of Color Series " begins with a focus on African American women writers . Overlooked for too long , these women , like other women writers of color , deserve a place in our libraries and on our bookshelves . Among women ...
... women in political movements and the importance of raising children in their own communities . She also wrote about sexual freedom and the range of sexual choices that humans might embrace . Whatever she wrote about , marched against ...
... women living with no public protection from rape , brutality , or ongoing war . The second poem addresses fabricated ... women . In a 1990 Essence Magazine inter- view with writers and activists June Jordan and Angela Davis , conducted ...
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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 |