The essential June Jordan:
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Beteilige Person: Jordan, June 1936-2002 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Levi, Jan Heller 1954- (HerausgeberIn, VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes), Keller, Christoph 1963- (HerausgeberIn, VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes), Brown, Jericho 1976- (VerfasserIn eines Nachworts)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London Penguin Books 2021
Schriftenreihe:Penguin modern classics
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Abstract:Gathering poems alongside photographs and manuscript pages, the definitive introduction to the work of June Jordon. 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 afterword by Jericho Brown, The Essential June Jordan allows new readers to discover -- and old fans to rediscover -- the vital work of this endlessly surprising poet
Beschreibung:First published: Copper Canyon Press, 2021
Umfang:xxiv, 236 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780241508718
0241508711