num_pages: 131
description: Poetry. African American Studies. Cortez has been and continues to be an explorer probing the valleys and chasms of human existence. No ravine is too perilous no abyss too threatening for Jayne Cortez.Maya AngelouIf you haven't read Jayne Cortez you're missing some of the best that life has to offer. A compellingly original voice of fire and freedom.Franklin RosemontJayne Cortez's poems are filled with images that most of us are afraid to see.Walter Mosley
language: English
title: On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems
publisher: Hanging Loose Press