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  • The Essential June Jordan

    by June Jordan ...
    "...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 ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • His Own Where

    by June Jordan ...
    Series series Contemporary Classics
    “This June Jordan treasure is a rare piece of fiction from one of America's most vital poets and political essayists—a tender story of young love in the face of generational opposition, a modern-day Romeo and Juliet that sings and sways.” —Walter MosleyNominated for a National Book Award in 1971, His Own Where is the story of Buddy, a fifteen-year-old boy whose world is spinning out of control. He ... Read more

    $9.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City Kids, City Teachers

    Reports from the Front Row

    by James Baldwin, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Constance Clayton, Lisa Delpit, Louanne Johnson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Deborah Meier ...
    " City Kids, City Teachers has the potential to create genuine change in the learning, teaching, and administration of urban public schools." — Library JournalIn more than twenty-five provocative selections, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of city classrooms from kindergarten through high school. Contributors including Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Directed by Desire

    The Collected Poems of June Jordan

    by June Jordan ...
    “Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry.”—BooklistNow in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan’s -poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan’s ten volumes, as well as dozens of “last poems” that were never published in Jordan’s lifetime, these more than six hundred pages overflow with intimate lyricism, elegance, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Passion

    by June Jordan ...
    After decades out of print, Passion—one of June Jordan’s most important collections—has returned to readers. Originally entitled, passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including “Poem About My Rights,” “Poem About Police Violence,” “Free Flight,” and an essay by the poet, “For the Sake of the People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us.” June Jordan was a fierce advocate ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • June Jordan’s Poetry for the People (Expanded Edition)

    A Revolutionary Blueprint

    by June Jordan, Samiya Bashir ...
    This thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.If you want to know how to teach poetry—in a university, a high school, at a nature preserve, in a hospital, or in your living room—read this book.June Jordan's Poetry for the People details how to build a grassroots poetry program ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Love Poems

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by June Jordan, Adrienne Rich ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **A landmark collection of love poetry by the most widely published African American poet of her time, tracing the arc of a queer relationship and including some of her most famous poemsForeword by aja monet • Afterword by Adrienne RichA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper**With the publication in 1993 of Love Poems (published as Haruko / Love Poems), June Jordan ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Nothing Less Than Love

    Selected Essays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by June Jordan ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **An ideal introduction to the work of the poet, activist, and visionary whom Toni Morrison called “our premiere Black woman essayist,” Nothing Less Than Love brings together for the first time June Jordan’s essential writings on the revolutionary power of love.A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper**Love is dangerous. That is why the most stringently censored Black ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition

    A Black Feminist Anthology

    by Barbara Smith, Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Cenen, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi (Willie) M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte0, Alexis De Veaux1, Jewelle L. Gomez2, Akasha (Gloria) Hull3, Patricia Spears Jones4, Raymina Y. Mays5, Deidre McCalla6, Chirlane McCray7, Pat Parker8, Linda C. Powell9, Bernice Johnson Reagon0, Spring Redd1, Gwendolyn Rogers2, Kate Rushin3, Ann Allen Shockley4, Beverly Smith5, Shirley O. Steele6, Luisah Teish7, Jameelah Waheed8, Alice Walker9, Renita J. Weems0, Professor Cheryl Clarke1, Professor June Jordan2, Professor Audre Lorde3 ...
    Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new ... Read more

    $20.19 USD