This definitive volume gathers work from June Jordan’s ten books of poetry and includes many never-before-published poems — including a tender, fierce, and innovative collection of poems written before her death in 2002.
Throughout her storied career as an artist and activist, Jordan chronicled a living, breathing history of the struggles that have defined the United States. Having engaged in a vast stylistic range, Jordan’s work broadened and enriched the traditions of American poetry.
Alice Walker wrote of Jordan: “[She] makes us think of Akhmatova, of Neruda. She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.”
