June Jordan

Passion

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-61932-242-4
EAN: 9781619322424
Produktnummer: 37700295
Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936 and was the author of ten books of poetry, seven collections of essays, two plays, a libretto, a novel, a memoir, five children's books, and June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint. As a professor at UC Berkeley, Jordan established Poetry for the People, a program to train student teachers to teach the power of poetry from a multicultural worldview. She was a regular columnist for The Progressive and her articles appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms., Essence, and The Nation. After her death from breast cancer in 2002, a school in the San Francisco School District was renamed in her honor.