The Essential June Jordan

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141996363

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The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan Pdf

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 : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322424

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Passion by June Jordan Pdf

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 : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780786751167

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Some of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan Pdf

"She remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.' "Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle*Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and span the length of her extraordinary career, reveal Jordan as an incisive analyst of the personal and public costs of remaining committed to the ideal and practice of democracy. Willing to venture into the most painful contradictions of American culture and politics, Jordan comes back with lyrical honesty, wit, and wide-ranging intelligence in these accounts of her reckoning with life as a teacher, poet, activist, and citizen.

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619320802

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Directed by Desire by June Jordan Pdf

Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786731374

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Soldier by June Jordan Pdf

Written with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a truly extraordinary, American life.

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781800814820

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Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan Pdf

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 : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1558616888

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His Own Where by June Jordan Pdf

“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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 193858435X

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We're on by June Jordan Pdf

Toni Morrison affirms Jordan's work as "tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1853810436

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Moving Towards Home by June Jordan Pdf

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780684814049

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Civil Wars by June Jordan Pdf

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 : Lauren Muller,June Jordan,Poetry for the People (Organization)
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015037865634

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June Jordan's Poetry for the People by Lauren Muller,June Jordan,Poetry for the People (Organization) Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1936117908

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Life as Activism by June Jordan Pdf

"A complete collection of June Jordan's columns for The Progressive, published between 1989 and 2001"--

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322400

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The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan Pdf

"...This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power and speak out against violence against women and police brutality. But Jordan also speaks on the significance of hope, mixing, as Brown puts it, 'the doom and devastation made mundane through media with the hard decision to love anyway.'"—O, The Oprah Magazine The Essential June Jordan honors the enduring legacy of a poet fiercely dedicated to building a better world. In this definitive volume, introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, June Jordan’s generous body of poetry is distilled and curated to represent the very best of her works. Written over the span of several decades—from Some Changes in 1971 to Last Poems in 2001—Jordan’s poems are at once of their era and tragically current, with subject matter including racist police brutality, violence against women, and the opportunity for global solidarity amongst people who are marginalized or outside of the norm. In these poems of great immediacy and radical kindness, humor and embodied candor, readers will (re)discover a voice that has inspired generations of contemporary poets to write their truths. June Jordan is a powerful voice of the time-honored movement for justice, a poet for the ages. Introduced by Jericho Brown, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer prize in poetry.

Author : Jordan B. Peterson
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780345816023

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12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375414589

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Blues Poems by Kevin Young Pdf

Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted exclusively to blues poems–a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power. The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden, to “Blues on Yellow” by Marilyn Chin and “Reservation Blues” by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues-inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics–poems in their own right–from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.