num_pages: 288
description: A profoundly moving childhood memoir by a noted poet, essayist, teacher, and journalist. "SHORTA not uncommon story is here captured with astonishing beauty" the childhood of a gifted daughter whose immigrant parents must struggle in order to provide her with the educational and social opportunities not available to them or, for that matter, to most blacks of her generation. In vivid prose that re-creates the heady impressions of youth, June Jordan takes us to the Harlem and Brooklyn neighborhoods where she lived and out into the larger landscape of her burgeoning imagination. Exploring the nature of memory, writing, and familial as well as social responsibility, Jordan re-creates the world in which her identity as a social and artistic revolutionary was forged.
language: English
title: Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
titlecomplete: Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
genres: Autobiography, LGBT, Race, Biography Memoir, Biography, African American Literature, Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 382
places: Harlem, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Civitas Books