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June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936 and
grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Poet, activist, teacher, and essayist,
she was a prolific, passionate and influential voice for liberation. June Jordan, who died in 2002, lived and wrote on the frontlines of American poetry, political vision and moral witness.
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Life as Activism, published in
February 2014 by Litwin Books and edited by Stacy Russo, is
the first complete collection of the columns June wrote for theProgressive Magazine (from 1989 to 2001). This beautiful new book comes with a foreword by Angela Davis and a preface by Matthew Rothschild.
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Kissing God Goodbye
June Jordan's 1997 book
of poetry, Kissing God Goodbye, has just been published in
Germany by Weidle Verlag, translated, Poetry-for-the-People-style, by the students of Technische Universität Dortmund and Professors Julia Sattler and Walter Grünzweig, in a beautiful bilingual edition, German and English, with an elegant cover by Max Cole.
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Technical Difficulties, June Jordan's 1992 collection of essays,
has just come out in Spanish, with an introduction
by Angela Davis, especially written for this foreign-language edition. The beautiful book is published by LaOficina / BAAM, Madrid.