{"product_id":"were-on-a-june-jordan-reader-paperback","title":"We're On: A June Jordan Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristoph Keller\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJan Heller Levi\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRachel Eliza Griffiths\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune Jordan was not the blacksmith's daughter. June Jordan was the blacksmith. . . . She never waited around, not for anyone's permission, to write or act or be. . . . For this book to have its birth now, in the lopsided moment when we need it most, is no chance occurrence. This great woman blacksmith is still sweetly hammering us on. --Nikky Finney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Poem about Police Violence: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTell me something\u003cbr\u003ewhat you think would happen if\u003cbr\u003eeverytime they kill a black boy\u003cbr\u003ethen we kill a cop\u003cbr\u003eeverytime they kill a black man\u003cbr\u003ethen we kill a cop\u003cbr\u003eyou think the accident rate would lower\u003cbr\u003esubsequently?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI lose consciousness of ugly bestial rabid\u003cbr\u003eand repetitive affront as when they tell me\u003cbr\u003e18 cops in order to subdue one man\u003cbr\u003e18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don't\u003cbr\u003eyou idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue and\u003cbr\u003escuffle my oh my) and that the murder\u003cbr\u003ethat the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn\u003cbr\u003estreet was just a justifiable accident again\u003cbr\u003e(again)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople been having accidents all over the globe\u003cbr\u003eso long like that I reckon that the only\u003cbr\u003esuitable insurance is a gun\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJune 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristoph Keller is the author of numerous prize-winning novels, plays and essays in German, including \u003ci\u003eGulp\u003c\/i\u003e (1988); \u003ci\u003eI'd Like My Country Flat \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eIch hätte das Land gern flach, \u003c\/i\u003e 1996); and the Swiss best-selling memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Best Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDer Beste Tänzer, \u003c\/i\u003e 2003). Keller and his wife, the American poet Jan Heller Levi, are currently co-writing \u003ci\u003eWhatever Can Come To A Woman, \u003c\/i\u003ethe first full-length biography of the American poet Muriel Rukeyser, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJan Heller Levi is the author of three books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eOnce I Gazed at You in Wonder, Skyspeak, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Orphan\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eA Muriel Rukeyser Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and consulting editor on the 2005 reissue of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser.\u003c\/i\u003e She is also coeditor, with Sara Miles, of \u003ci\u003eDirected by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 500\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760120070432,"sku":"9781938584350","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/23514bba6cb60be81961a7b31af928bd.webp?v=1780172088","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/were-on-a-june-jordan-reader-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}