Jordan, June

New York. 1992. November 1992. Pantheon Books. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0679406255. 228 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration and design by Royce Becker. keywords: Literature Black America Women Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Distinguished African-American poet, activist, essayist, and teacher, June Jordan gives us an extraordinary new collection of essays on a rich variety of contemporary American themes, like Barbara Ehrenreich's THE WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES or Angela Davis's WOMEN, RACE, AND CLASS, TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES offers a bracing account of life as it is lived in America today. Whether she is discoursing on growing up in Brooklyn with immigrant parents searching for the American dream; the myths of race and class so pervasive in the American psyche; her formation as a writer confronting the romance of the individual artist; Martin Luther King. Jr. and Jesse Jackson; the poverty of American education; the fall of Mike Tyson; or Anita Hill's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, June Jordan is always incendiary. Her writing is all of it remarkable for its preternatural clarity. Here are essays that constitute a major writer's manifesto of hope, anger, and visionary power. inventory #26147 ISBN: 0679406255.