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Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems
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Title: Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems
Author: June Jordan
Publisher: Basic Books
Publish Date: 1993
Pages: 224
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780938410843
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'June Jordan is as courageous, as rebellious, as compassionate as she is original. [She] is an inhabitant of the entire universe.' -Alice Walker
This collection is the definite anthology of work by June Jordan, compiling poetry from nearly 20 years-including over 50 poems published in the U.S. for the first time. Empathetic to all it encounters, her poetry is a deeply personal music sounded in response to universal concerns. In Naming Our Destiny, she addresses racism, oppression, dispossession with a call for justice for sensitivity to our world. June Jordan's works include eight books of poetry, two books of essays, a novel. She is currently a professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.
This collection is the definite anthology of work by June Jordan, compiling poetry from nearly 20 years-including over 50 poems published in the U.S. for the first time. Empathetic to all it encounters, her poetry is a deeply personal music sounded in response to universal concerns. In Naming Our Destiny, she addresses racism, oppression, dispossession with a call for justice for sensitivity to our world. June Jordan's works include eight books of poetry, two books of essays, a novel. She is currently a professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.