Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
Authors and Contributors      By (author) June Jordan
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 233,Width 159
Category/GenreLiterary essays
ISBN/Barcode 9780465036936
ClassificationsDewey:305.896073
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Basic Books
Imprint Basic Books
Publication Date 1 April 2003
Publication Country United States

Description

A posthumous collection of the essays of June Jordan, noted for its "love of language" and "expression of social identity" (Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle ). "She remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.' "Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and span the length of her extraordinary career, reveal Jordan as an incisive analyst of the personal and public costs of remaining committed to the ideal and practice of democracy. Willing to venture into the most painful contradictions of American culture and politics, Jordan comes back with lyrical honesty, wit, and wide-ranging intelligence in these accounts of her reckoning with life as a teacher, poet, activist, and citizen.

Author Biography

June Jordan was Professor of African American Studies at U.C. Berkeley and was born in New York City in 1936. Her books of poetry include Haruko / Love Poems and Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems. She was also the author of five children's books, a novel, three plays, and five volumes of political essays, the most recent of which was Affirmative Acts. For more than ten years, she wrote a regular political column for The Progressive magazine. Her honours included a National Book Award nomination, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, and a National Association of Black Journalists Award. June Jordan died in Berkeley, California on June 14, 2002.