Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems

By June Jordan

Book Overview

"June Jordan is as courageous, as rebellious, as compassionate as she is original.... [She] is an inhabitant of the entire universe." -Alice Walker This collection is the definite anthology of work by June Jordan, compiling poetry from nearly 20 years-including over 50 poems published in the U.S. for the first time. Empathetic to all it encounters, her poetry is a deeply personal music sounded in response to universal concerns. In Naming Our Destiny, she addresses racism, oppression, & dispossession with a call for justice & for sensitivity to our world. June Jordon's works include eight books of poetry, two books of essays, & a novel. She is currently a professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938410830
• ISBN13: 9780938410836
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Powerful unflinching poetry

This collection of Jordan's work gives a fair cross section of her gorgeous love poems and prescient political work. This book considers the struggles all over the world for people to live freely without fear. I find that picking up my copy and reading it now, it's still as current and awakening as when i read it as a college student.