The essential June Jordan
Jordan, June, 1936-20022021
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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.
Main title:
The essential June Jordan / The June Jordan Literary Estate Trust ; introduction by Jericho Brown ; edited by Christoph Keller, Jan Heller Levi.
Author:
Jordan, June, 1936-2002, authorKeller, Christoph, 1963-, editorLevi, Jan Heller, editorJune Jordan Literary Estate Trust, associated with work
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2021.
Collation:
xxvi, 236 pages ; 20 cm
Series title:
ISBN:
9780241508718 (pbk)
Dewey class:
811.54811.54 JOR
Local class:
AR.2.03/JOR
Language:
English
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BRN:
3085222