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We're on, a June Jordan reader, edited by Christoph Keller & Jan Heller Levi ; introduction by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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We're on, a June Jordan reader, edited by Christoph Keller & Jan Heller Levi ; introduction by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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eng

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non fiction

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edited by Christoph Keller & Jan Heller Levi ; introduction by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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a June Jordan reader

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

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