June Jordan
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Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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“This June Jordan treasure is a rare piece of fiction from one of America's most vital poets and political essayists—a tender story of young love in the face of generational opposition, a modern-day Romeo and Juliet that sings and sways." —Walter Mosley
Nominated for a National Book Award in 1971, His Own Where is the story of Buddy, a fifteen-year-old boy whose world is spinning out of control. He meets
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English
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"June Jordan was not the blacksmith's daughter. June Jordan was the blacksmith....She never waited around, not for anyone's permission, to write or act or be....For this book to have its birth now, in the lopsided moment when we need it most, is no chance occurrence. This great woman blacksmith is still sweetly hammering us on." -Nikky Finney
Poet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, significant American writer who pushed the limits...
3) Passion
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English
Description
This volume holds key works including "Poem About My Rights," "Poem About Police Violence," "Free Flight," and an essay by the poet, "For the Sake of the People's Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us." June Jordan was a fierce advocate for the safety and humanity of women and Black people, and for the freedom of all people- and Barack Obama made a line from this book famous: "We are the ones we have been waiting for." With love and humor, via lyrics...
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English
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"Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan gathers the work from Jordan's ten books of poetry and includes many never-before-published poems - including a tender, fierce, and innovative collection of poems written before her death, in 2002, from breast cancer."--Jacket.
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English
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With Soldier, world-renowned poet June Jordan presents a deeply personal memoir of her formative years in post-World War II Harlem, where she was raised the daughter of dirt-poor West Indian immigrants. June's first 12 years were at turns peaceful and tumultuous, sowing all the seeds of her later poetry.
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Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This collection of poems-- some previously unpublished-- provides a distillation of Jordan's very best works over a long career. Her poems arose out of the crises of their eras, but timelessly address subjects such as police brutality, systemic racism, and the struggle for global solidarity among marginalized people. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A professor of African-American studies, feminist, and award-winning poet presents a collection of lyrical, musical poems on such subjects as the stereotyping of women, her relationship with her mother, and the victimization of blacks in Los Angeles.
