We're On: A June Jordan Reader

Jan Heller Levi

ISBN 10: 193858435X / ISBN 13: 9781938584350

Edité par Alice James Books Sep 2017, 2017

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Neuware - 'June Jordan was not the blacksmith's daughter. June Jordan was the blacksmith. . . . She never waited around, not for anyone's permission, to write or act or be. . . . For this book to have its birth now, in the lopsided moment when we need it most, is no chance occurrence. This great woman blacksmith is still sweetly hammering us on.' -Nikky FinneyPoet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, significant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision and moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry, prose, letters, and more, this reader is a key resource for understanding the scope, complexity, and novelty of this pioneering Black American writer.From 'Poem about Police Violence':Tell me somethingwhat you think would happen ifeverytime they kill a black boythen we kill a copeverytime they kill a black manthen we kill a copyou think the accident rate would lowersubsequently . . .I lose consciousness of ugly bestial rabidand repetitive affront as when they tell me18 cops in order to subdue one man18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don'tyou idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue andscuffle my oh my) and that the murderthat the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklynstreet was just a 'justifiable accident' again(again)People been having accidents all over the globeso long like that I reckon that the onlysuitable insurance is a gun.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: We're On: A June Jordan Reader
• Éditeur: Alice James Books Sep 2017
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 193858435X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781938584350
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 228 L x 151 H x 30 P (en millimètres) 228 millimètres de largeur par 151 millimètres de hauteur par 30 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 672 grammes

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Synopsis

Poet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific,
significant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision
and moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry,
prose, letters, and more, this reader is a key resource for
understanding the scope, complexity, and novelty of this pioneering
Black American writer.

À propos de l'auteur

June Jordan (1936 - 2002) was a poet, activist, journalist, essayist and teacher. Prolific and passionate, she was an influential voice who lived and wrote on the frontlines of American poetry, international political vision and human moral witness. The author of many award-winning books, she traveled widely to read her poems and to proclaim a vision of liberation for all people. Dynamic, rebellious, and courageous, June Jordan was, and still is, a lyrical catalyst for change.

Christoph Keller is the author of numerous prize-winning novels, plays and essays in German, including Gulp (1988); I'd Like My Country Flat (Ich hätte das Land gern flach, 1996); and the Swiss best-selling memoir The Best Dancer (Der Beste Tänzer, 2003). Keller and his wife, the American poet Jan Heller Levi, are currently co-writing Whatever Can Come To A Woman, the first full-length biography of the American poet Muriel Rukeyser, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf.

Jan Heller Levi is the author of three books of poetry, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, Skyspeak, and Orphan. She is the editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader and consulting editor on the 2005 reissue of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. She is also coeditor, with Sara Miles, of Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan. Levi lives in New York City with her husband, the Swiss-born novelist and playwright, Christoph Keller, with whom she is completing a biography of Rukeyser. She teaches at Hunter College.