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This Unruly Witness

This Unruly Witness June Jordan's Legacy

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Publisher's Synopsis

A collection of bold, tender, and illuminating writings on June Jordan's multidimensional legacy and the "sacred continuance" of her work as poet, healer, and activist. 

This Unruly Witness, created to celebrate the life and legacy of the poet activist June Jordan was curated for people who see love as a life force, who seek a community that can sustain us, who know that "we are the ones we have been waiting for." With essays and poetry written by people carrying the batons Jordan passed, this collection illuminates why we need Jordan more than ever.

This is the first collection written by artists, intellectuals, and activists whose work has been deeply shaped by June Jordan's extraordinary legacy. Featuring essays, poems, letters, and interviews from internationally acclaimed poets, and thinkers including Angela Davis, Pratibha Parmar, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Naomi Shihab Nye, Afaa M. Weaver, E. Ethelbert Miller, and former students of June Jordan's. 

About the Publisher

Haymarket Books

Book information

ISBN: 9798888904572
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 304
Weight: -1g