We're On: A June Jordan Reader - by Christoph Keller & Jan Heller Levi (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Toni Morrison affirms Jordan's work as "tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Jordan begs us to trust one another and to tell the truth, to read the world more closely, to learn the wisdom of those who came before, who resisted before, and loved before. She laid a foundation, leaving a revolutionary blueprint for poetry to transform our lives beyond the white gaze and its literary imagination. . . .This book is not just a collection of figurative words; it is a tool for liberation." --Publishers Weekly, starred review by Aja Monet "This first posthumous volume to hold both [Jordan's] verse and her prose puts her back near the center of conversations where--with Audré Lorde and Adrienne Rich--she clearly belongs." --Stephanie Burt, American Poets "Read this reader, maybe beginning with Jordan's 'Poem about My Rights' or 'Poem About Police Violence.' If nothing else June Jordan will teach you how to love, no matter who you are. This book is the rainbow sign after all the flooding across America." -E. Ethelbert Miller for the New York Journal of Books "The wonder of poetry is that after the body burns off, the breath and bones, the residue of mischief, the fierceness and loyalty to truth remains. Don't you hear her beside us now, as we gaze into the dark? Doesn't holding these pages light your mind with impossible bravery?" --Cornelius Eady<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br>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. <p/>Christoph Keller is the author of numerous prize-winning novels, plays and essays in German, including <i>Gulp</i> (1988); <i>I'd Like My Country Flat </i>(<i>Ich hätte das Land gern flach, </i> 1996); and the Swiss best-selling memoir <i>The Best Dancer</i> (<i>Der Beste Tänzer, </i> 2003). Keller and his wife, the American poet Jan Heller Levi, are currently co-writing <i>Whatever Can Come To A Woman, </i>the first full-length biography of the American poet Muriel Rukeyser, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. <p/>Jan Heller Levi is the author of three books of poetry, <i>Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, Skyspeak, </i> and<i> Orphan</i>. She is the editor of <i>A Muriel Rukeyser Reader</i> and consulting editor on the 2005 reissue of <i>The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser.</i> She is also coeditor, with Sara Miles, of <i>Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan</i>. 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. <br>
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