Singing With Understanding, Including 101 Favorite Hymn Backgrounds (323p)

By Torrey PodmajerskyJennavive JohnsonGeorge Salis, et al.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0825434149
• ISBN13: 9780825434143
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Kregel Pubns
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

More than words....

This is an excellent piece of literary art. June Jordan, quite frankly, "makes love to the English language." This is how I describe the writing in this book. It is rare that I feel connected to any author in the way that I feel emotionally and spiritually connected to Ms. Jordan, through her writing. It is the first work of hers that I picked up. At the time, I was unaware that she had passed away from breast cancer. She...

A loss to the world

A poet, an activist, a writer and a teacher, June Jordan died in 2002. It is somewhat depressing to read these essays, some of them years old, and realize how little events have improved or changed. Her essay on Palestine's children is one such example. The title of her book refers to the attacks on September 11th, and she ranges over subjects such as poverty, racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, rape and far too many of the horrors...

A luminous voice that is missed...

June Jordan was many things: woman, Mother, friend, poet activist essayist. She excelled, apparantly, at each. She died earlier this year from breast cancer. She left us this final testament, a group of essays that touch on allof her abiding concersn: race, poetry,feminism, anit-semitism, The plight of the Palestinian refugees, breast cancer,militarism, rape[agonizingly, she had been rapes. Twice!},Martin Luther King, Jr...