We're on : a June Jordan reader /
"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...
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Farmington, ME :
Alice James Books,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- "No one will move anywhere but up": Jordan on space, community, architecture, & design for humans (1964-1971)
- "Who would paint a people black or white?": Who look at me (1969) & Soulscript (1970)
- "Honey people murder mercy U.S.A.": Some changes (1967, 1971)
- "If it's wrong in standard English it's probably right in Black English, or, at least, you're hot": Jordan on the politics of language (1972-1985)
- "They mining the rivers/We making love real": from New days: poems of exile and return (1974)
- "Jewels of our soul": Jordan on Countee Cullen's anthology Caroling Dusk, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes & Phillis Wheatley (1974-1985)
- "I must become a menace to my enemies": from Things that I do in the dark: new and selected poems (1977)
- "This is my perspective, and this is my faith": Jordan on her life and work (1977-2000)
- "So hot so hot so hot so what/so hot so what so hot so hot": Collaborations: theater, music, teaching, poetry (1981-1996)
- "We are the ones we have been waiting for": from Passion: New Poems 1977-1980 (1980) & from Civil Wars: Observations from the Front Lines of America (1981)
- "I need to talk about living room/Because I need to talk about home": from On Call: Political Essays (1985) & from LIving Room: New Poems (1985)
- "Every night the waters of the world": from Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems 1985-1989 (1989)
- "Misbegotten American dreams have maimed us all": from Technical Difficulties: African American Notes on the State of the Union (1992)
- "Let me be very/very/very/very/very/specific": from Haruko/Love Poems: New and Selected Love Poems (1993), from Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997 (1997) & from Affirmative Acts: Political Essays (1998)
- "I guess it was my destiny to live so long": from her last poems (1997-2002) in Directed by Desire: the Collected Poems of June Jordan (2005) & from Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays (2002).