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We're On: A June Jordan Reader - Paperback

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by Christoph Keller (Editor), Jan Heller Levi (Editor), Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Introduction by)

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, and novelty of this pioneering
Black American writer.

Author Biography


June Jordan (1936 - 2002) was a poet, activist, journalist, essayist and teacher. Prolific and passionate, she was an influential voice who lived and wrote on the frontlines of American poetry, international political vision and human moral witness. The author of many award-winning books, she traveled widely to read her poems and to proclaim a vision of liberation for all people. Dynamic, rebellious, and courageous, June Jordan was, and still is, a lyrical catalyst for change.

Christoph Keller is the author of numerous prize-winning novels, plays and essays in German, including Gulp (1988); I'd Like My Country Flat (Ich hätte das Land gern flach, 1996); and the Swiss best-selling memoir The Best Dancer (Der Beste Tänzer, 2003). Keller and his wife, the American poet Jan Heller Levi, are currently co-writing Whatever Can Come To A Woman, the first full-length biography of the American poet Muriel Rukeyser, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf.

Jan Heller Levi is the author of three books of poetry, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, Skyspeak, and Orphan. She is the editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader and consulting editor on the 2005 reissue of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. She is also coeditor, with Sara Miles, of Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan. Levi lives in New York City with her husband, the Swiss-born novelist and playwright, Christoph Keller, with whom she is completing a biography of Rukeyser. She teaches at Hunter College.
Number of Pages: 500
Dimensions: 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: September 19, 2017

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