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Author | : June Jordan |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 2012-12-28 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619320800 |
Download Directed by Desire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."
Author | : June Jordan |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619322420 |
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After decades out of print, Passion—one of June Jordan’s most important collections—has returned to readers. Originally entitled, passion: new poems, 1977-1980, 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 and rants, she calls for nothing less than radical compassion. This new edition includes a foreword by Nicole Sealey.
Author | : June Jordan |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-06-24 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141996366 |
Download The Essential June Jordan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker) For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled from the other. Her storied career came to chronicle a living, breathing history of the struggles that defined the USA in the latter half of the twentieth century; and her poetry, accordingly, put its dazzling stylistic range to use in exploring issues of gender, race, immigration, representation and much else besides. Here, above all, are sinuous, lashing and passionate lines, virtuosic in their musicality and always bearing the stamp of Jordan's irrepressible personality. Here are poems of suffusing light and profound anger: poems moved as much by political animus as by a deep love for the observation of human life in all its foibles, eccentricities, strengths and weaknesses. With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, The Essential June Jordan allows new readers to discover - and old fans to rediscover - the vital work of this endlessly surprising poet who, in the words of Adrienne Rich, believed that 'genuine, up-from-the-bottom revolution must include art, laughter, sensual pleasure, and the widest possible human referentiality.'
Author | : June Jordan |
Publisher | : The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2010-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1558616888 |
Download His Own Where Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“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 Angela, whose angry parents accuse her of being "wild." When life falls apart for Buddy and his father, and when Angela is attacked at home, they take action to create their own way of staying alive in Brooklyn. In the process, the two find refuge in one another and learn that love is real and necessary. His Own Where was one of The New York Times' Most Outstanding Books and was on the American Library Association's list of Best Books in 1971. June Jordan was a poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist, activist, and educator known for challenging oppression through her inspirational words and actions. She was the founder of Poetry for the People at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught for many years. The author of over twenty books, her poetry is collected in Directed by Desire; her selected essays in Some of Us Did Not Die. Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, Black Wings & Blind Angels, and Push, which was made into the 2009 award-winning motion picture Precious.
Author | : June Jordan |
Publisher | : Civitas Books |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2009-08-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786751169 |
Download Some Of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.” —Toni Morrison Some of Us Did Not Die brings together the seminal essays of June Jordan, the widely acclaimed Black American writer known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. Spanning the length of her extraordinary career, and including her last writings, the essays in this collection reveal Jordan as an incisive analyst of injustice, democracy, and literature. Willing to venture into the most painful contradictions of culture and politics, Jordan comes back with lyrical honesty, wit, and wide-ranging intelligence that resonates sharply to this day.
Author | : June Jordan |
Publisher | : Civitas Books |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2009-04-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0786731370 |
Download Soldier: A Poet's Childhood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A profoundly moving childhood memoir by one of the most widely acclaimed Black American writers of her generation Captured with astonishing beauty, through the eyes of a child, Soldier paints the battleground of June Jordan’s youth as the gifted daughter of Jamaican immigrants, struggling under the humiliations of racism, sexism, and poverty in 1940s New York. “There was a war on against colored people, against poor people,” Jordan writes, and she watches her mother turn inward in her suffering, her father lashing out, often violently, against his own daughter. She learns to harden herself, to be a “soldier,” while preserving a deep capacity for love and wonder. Poignantly exploring the nature of memory, imagination, and familial as well as social responsibility, Jordan re-creates the vivid world in which her identity as a social and artistic revolutionary was forged.
Author | : June Jordan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1995-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0684814048 |
Download Civil Wars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From renowned poet and activist June Jordan comes the reissue of her classic collection of essays about love, power, violence, and the condition of race relations in America. "A major and indispensable reading experience."--Alice Walker.
Author | : June Jordan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781936117901 |
Download Life as Activism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A complete collection of June Jordan's columns for The Progressive, published between 1989 and 2001"--
Author | : June Jordan |
Publisher | : Serpent's Tail |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2023-01-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1800814828 |
Download Haruko/Love Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relationships with men and women, political resistance, the need for self-care in a demanding, uncaring world and apocalyptic visions of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. A contemporary of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, June Jordan's spectacular poetry remains profoundly politically potent, lyrically inventive and breathtakingly romantic. First published in 1994, Haruko/ Love poems is a vitally important modern classic.
Author | : Valerie Kinloch |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2006-06-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Biography of June Jordan (1936-2002), Jamaican-American writer and poet.