This text provides a guide for teachers and poets on how to inspire young people to become practising poets. Part One focuses on Jordan's classroom and workshop methods for teaching poets whilst Part Two features interviews with contemporary poets who discuss their influences.
This text provides a guide for teachers and poets on how to inspire young people to become practising poets. Part One focuses on Jordan's classroom an...
Black poets from the early twentieth century and onward come together for a moving anthology, edited and organized by the late, revered poet June Jordan.
First published in 1970, soulscript is a poignant, panoramic collection of poetry from some of the most eloquent voices in the art. Selected for their literary excellence and by the dictates of Jordan s heart, these works tell the story of both collective and personal experiences, in Jordan s words, in tears, in rage, in hope, in sonnet, in blank/free verse, in overwhelming rhetorical scream. Soulscript...
Black poets from the early twentieth century and onward come together for a moving anthology, edited and organized by the late, revered poet Jun...
"Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry."--Booklist
Now in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan's -poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan's ten volumes, as well as dozens of "last poems" that were never published in Jordan's lifetime, these more than six hundred pages overflow with intimate lyricism, elegance, fury, meditative solos, and dazzling vernacular riffs.
As Adrienne Rich writes in her introduction, June Jordan "wanted her readers, listeners, students, to...
"Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry."--Booklist
"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...
"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 ...
This volume is a complete collection of June Jordan's columns for The Progressive, published between 1989 and 2001. Jordan (1936-2002) was a poet and UC Berkeley professor who is celebrated as a great human rights activist and social critic. Through her work, she taught a concept of "life as activism," based on inclusiveness, consistency, honesty, and identification with the oppressed. Far from being a purely idealistic and unsustainable approach to life, Jordan demonstrated that "life as activism" can be a way of engaging with the world that is accessible to all people who are committed to...
This volume is a complete collection of June Jordan's columns for The Progressive, published between 1989 and 2001. Jordan (1936-2002) was a poet and ...
