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Subtitle: a June Jordan reader
By: edited by Christoph Keller & Jan Heller Levi ; introduction by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Contributors: Keller, Christoph, 1963- editor; Levi, Jan Heller, editor; Griffiths, Rachel Eliza, writer of introduction
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
ISBN-13: 9781938584350
Subjects: African Americans in literature; American Women authors; African American authors; American literature; African American women authors; Political and social views
Other titles: June Jordan reader
Work titles: Works
Description: "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. From "Poem about Police Violence": Tell me something what you think would happen if everytime they kill a black boy then we kill a cop everytime they kill a black man then we kill a cop you think the accident rate would lower subsequently?. I lose consciousness of ugly bestial rabid and repetitive affront as when they tell me 18 cops in order to subdue one man 18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don't you idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue and scuffle my oh my) and that the murder that the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn street was just a "justifiable accident" again (again) People been having accidents all over the globe so long like that I reckon that the only suitable insurance is a gun"--