{"product_id":"were-on-a-june-jordan-reader-paperback","title":"We're On: A June Jordan Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristoph Keller\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJan Heller Levi\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRachel Eliza Griffiths\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, \u003cbr\u003esignificant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision \u003cbr\u003eand moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry, \u003cbr\u003e prose, letters, and more, this reader is a key resource for \u003cbr\u003eunderstanding the scope, complexity, and novelty of this pioneering \u003cbr\u003eBlack American writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJune Jordan (1936 - 2002) was a poet, activist, journalist, essayist and teacher. Prolific and passionate, she was an influential voice who lived and wrote on the frontlines of American poetry, international political vision and human moral witness. The author of many award-winning books, she traveled widely to read her poems and to proclaim a vision of liberation for all people. Dynamic, rebellious, and courageous, June Jordan was, and still is, a lyrical catalyst for change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristoph Keller is the author of numerous prize-winning novels, plays and essays in German, including \u003ci\u003eGulp\u003c\/i\u003e (1988); \u003ci\u003eI'd Like My Country Flat \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eIch hätte das Land gern flach, \u003c\/i\u003e 1996); and the Swiss best-selling memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Best Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDer Beste Tänzer, \u003c\/i\u003e 2003). Keller and his wife, the American poet Jan Heller Levi, are currently co-writing \u003ci\u003eWhatever Can Come To A Woman, \u003c\/i\u003ethe first full-length biography of the American poet Muriel Rukeyser, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJan Heller Levi is the author of three books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eOnce I Gazed at You in Wonder, Skyspeak, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Orphan\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eA Muriel Rukeyser Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and consulting editor on the 2005 reissue of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser.\u003c\/i\u003e She is also coeditor, with Sara Miles, of \u003ci\u003eDirected by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan\u003c\/i\u003e. Levi lives in New York City with her husband, the Swiss-born novelist and playwright, Christoph Keller, with whom she is completing a biography of Rukeyser. She teaches at Hunter College. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 500\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779533078591,"sku":"9781938584350","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/were-on-a-june-jordan-reader-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}