";s:4:"text";s:2395:" Addressing women, this excerpt shows the feminist point of view of Jordan's essay. This is the theme of the entire essay, which June Jordan was not an academic, ivory-tower poet given to abstract speculations about the nature of truth and beauty.
June Jordan uses the essay to discuss a variety of issues that are housed within various categories -- international, American, black, and female. Essays and criticism on June Jordan - Critical Essays. June Jordan, who died in 2002, lived and wrote on the frontlines of American poetry, political vision and moral witness. Poet, activist, teacher, and essayist, she was a prolific, passionate and influential voice for liberation.
1936–2002. In Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays of June Jordan (2002), published the same year of the author’s death from breast cancer, Jordan presents thirty-two previously published essays as well as eight new tracts.
June jordan was a superb writer, and a better human being. Highly recommended June Jordan’s twenty-eight books include poetry, essays, fiction, and children’s books.
June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936 and grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The essays examine a wide range of topics, from sexism, racism, and Black English to trips the author made to various places, the decline of the U.S. educational system, and the terrorist …
Her numerous books of poetry include We’re On: A June Jordan Reader (Alice James Books, 2017), Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), Kissing God Goodbye: Poems, 1991-1997 (Anchor Books, 1997), Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems (Thunder's …