Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

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Basic Books, 15 мар. 2003 г. - Всего страниц: 312
"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.

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A Far Stretch Well Worth the Effort
20
A Letter to Maria
32
Update on Martin Luther King Jr
44
Break the Law
55
FROM TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES Waking Up in the Middle of Some American Dreams
109
Requiem for the Champ
120
Can I Get a Witness?
125
A New Politics of Sexuality
131
Report from the Bahamas
211
Problems of Language in a Democratic State
223
Many Rivers to Cross
233
Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us
242
Civil Wars
257
Where Is the Love?
268
New Lives
275
Notes Toward a Black Balancing of Love and Hatred
284

A Belated Tribute to a Legacy of Gifted Intelligence and Guts
137
An Essay on the Life and Ideas of Dr Martin Luther King Jr
143
Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan
157
The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley
174
Life After Lebanon
187
November 1984
196
Why I Had to Go There
199
American Violence and the Holy Loving Spirit
290
Letter to R Buckminster Fuller
294
Letter to Michael
299
Foreword to Civil Wars
306
Index
309
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June Jordan was Professor of African American Studies at U.C. Berkeley and was born in New York City in 1936. Her books of poetry include Haruko / Love Poems and Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems. She was also the author of five children's books, a novel, three plays, and five volumes of political essays, the most recent of which was Affirmative Acts. For more than ten years, she wrote a regular political column for The Progressive magazine. Her honours included a National Book Award nomination, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, and a National Association of Black Journalists Award. June Jordan died in Berkeley, California on June 14, 2002.

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