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June Jordan

The Essential June Jordan

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June Jordan could renew any skeptic's faith in poetry. These poems gleam with jewel-like polish at the same time that they seem so effortlessly conversational one feels as if Jordan is in the room, expounding her endlessly complex and enlivening arc from outright outrage to generous love for herself, her partners, and all of us. June Jordan's poetry speaks pointedly to the present moment and fervent calls for social justice.Jordan spent half a century as one of the most admired, influential, and accessible public intellectuals in the United States. Her thinking still affects us to this day. Jordan's work was unflinchingly intersectional eve… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Levi, Jan Heller (Hrsg.) / Keller, Christoph (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-55659-620-9
  • EAN: 9781556596209
  • Produktnummer: 34509003
  • Verlag: Copper Canyon Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.

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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.

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