The Essential June Jordan

by June Jordan

Honored as a Best Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly

This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power and speak out against violence against women and police brutality. But Jordan also speaks on the significance of hope, mixing, as Brown puts it, 'the doom and devastation made mundane through media...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556596200
• ISBN13: 9781556596209
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"