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Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320800
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Directed by Desire written by June Jordan and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."
Author : June Jordan
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558616888
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book His Own Where written by June Jordan and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141996366
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Essential June Jordan written by June Jordan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0786731370
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Soldier: A Poet's Childhood written by June Jordan and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322420
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Passion written by June Jordan and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0786751169
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Some Of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays written by June Jordan and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Valerie Kinloch
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book June Jordan written by Valerie Kinloch and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of June Jordan (1936-2002), Jamaican-American writer and poet.
Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684814048
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Civil Wars written by June Jordan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9781936117901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Life as Activism written by June Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A complete collection of June Jordan's columns for The Progressive, published between 1989 and 2001"--
Author : Lauren Muller
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book June Jordan's Poetry for the People written by Lauren Muller and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively "blueprint" (guidebook) represents collaborative efforts of the Poetry for the People, 60 or more multicultural students under the leadership of June Jordan at the University of California, Berkeley. Describing how-tos of grassroots poetry programs and staunchly pledged to current politically correct tenets of diversity, in addition to printing student poems, this anthology reviews how to take readings and workshops into the community and cultivate "empowerment by affirming that everybody has something to offer." Chapters discuss these "cultural literacies": African American; Asian American; Caribbean; Chicana/o, Latina/o American; children's; deaf; gay and lesbian; Irish and Irish American; Native American; and women's. This celebration of "explorative" poetry as a communal, oral art form is an easy-to-use, timely reference for community college, public libraries, and writers' centers. Frank Allen, Northampton Community Coll., Tannersville, Pa. Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information.
Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1800814828
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Haruko/Love Poems written by June Jordan and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : June Jordan
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Technical Difficulties written by June Jordan and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished African-American poet, activist, essayist, and teacher presents an extraordinary collection of essays on a variety of contemporary themes--from growing up in Brooklyn with immigrant parents searching for the American dream to the relationship between poetry and politics to the poverty of American education. Major and indispensable.--Alice Walker.
Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kissing God Goodbye written by June Jordan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan's work, at this point and for many years now, is perfect. She says exactly what she means to say, and says it so powerfully that the reader hears each phrase. She manages to tap into that place where race and sexuality, class and justice, gender and memory come together. She doesn't go with the cutting-edge idea but reaches for that difficult terrain where others may fear to tread. --American Book Review. She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet. --Alice Walker. Jordan is one of the most musically and lyrically gifted poets of the late twentieth century. --Adrienne Rich.
Author : June Jordan
Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Who Look at Me written by June Jordan and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem exploring the condition, feelings, and ideas of blacks in a white society illustrated by reproductions of paintings depicting the life of blacks in America throughout history.
Author : June Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fannie Lou Hamer written by June Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of one of the first black organizers of voter registration in Mississippi.
Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Affirmative Acts written by June Jordan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piercingly intuitive, eloquent, and caustic, Affirmative Acts is an address to the social, economic, racial, and political conflicts that mar the otherwise beautiful human experience. In this new collection of political essays, Jordan explores the confusion of an America in the grip of pseudo-multiculturalism and political intolerance. Continuing in the tradition of her classic collections Civil Wars and Technical Difficulties, Jordan acquaints readers with moments of American life threatened by social negligence and economic despair. With her characteristic insight, Jordan unveils how these too-frequent bouts of civil unrest bring out the weakest parts of the American spirit and challenges readers to remain inspired as society approaches the millennium. June Jordan's wisdom shines through in this brilliant collection of inspirational essays, which will be eagerly awaited by Jordan loyalists and enjoyed by her new readers.
Author : June Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book On Call written by June Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
