The Essential June Jordan av June Jordan

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<p><b>The definitive introduction to the work of ''the bravest of us . . . the universal poet'' (Alice Walker)<br></b><br>For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled from the other. Her storied career came to chronicle a living, breathing history of the struggles that defined the USA in the latter half of the twentieth century; and her poetry, accordingly, put its dazzling stylistic range to use in exploring issues of gender, race, immigration, representation and much else besides.<br><br>Here, above all, are sinuous, lashing and passionate lines, virtuosic in their musicality and always bearing the stamp of Jordan''s irrepressible personality. Here are poems of suffusing light and profound anger: poems moved as much by political animus as by a deep love for the observation of human life in all its foibles, eccentricities, strengths and weaknesses.<br><br>With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, <i>The Essential June Jo