Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays of June Jordan

By June Jordan

Book Overview

"Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art." --Toni Morrison Some of Us Did Not Die brings together the seminal essays of June Jordan, the widely acclaimed Black American writer known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. Spanning the length of her extraordinary career, and including her last writings, the essays in this collection reveal Jordan as an incisive analyst of injustice, democracy, and literature. Willing to venture into the most painful contradictions of culture and politics, Jordan comes back with lyrical honesty, wit, and wide-ranging intelligence that resonates sharply to this day. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465036929
• ISBN13: 9780465036929
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"

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...