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The Essential June Jordan (Paperback): Jan Heller Levi, Christoph Keller The Essential June Jordan (Paperback)
Jan Heller Levi, Christoph Keller; Introduction by Jericho Brown; June Jordan
R297 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R50 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker) For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled from the other. Her storied career came to chronicle a living, breathing history of the struggles that defined the USA in the latter half of the twentieth century; and her poetry, accordingly, put its dazzling stylistic range to use in exploring issues of gender, race, immigration, representation and much else besides. Here, above all, are sinuous, lashing and passionate lines, virtuosic in their musicality and always bearing the stamp of Jordan's irrepressible personality. Here are poems of suffusing light and profound anger: poems moved as much by political animus as by a deep love for the observation of human life in all its foibles, eccentricities, strengths and weaknesses. With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, The Essential June Jordan allows new readers to discover - and old fans to rediscover - the vital work of this endlessly surprising poet who, in the words of Adrienne Rich, believed that 'genuine, up-from-the-bottom revolution must include art, laughter, sensual pleasure, and the widest possible human referentiality.'

We're On: A June Jordan Reader (Paperback): Christoph Keller, Jan Heller Levi We're On: A June Jordan Reader (Paperback)
Christoph Keller, Jan Heller Levi; Introduction by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
R693 R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Save R85 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Essential June Jordan (Paperback): June Jordan The Essential June Jordan (Paperback)
June Jordan; Edited by Jan Heller Levi, Christoph Keller; Introduction by Jericho Brown
R469 R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Save R64 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Once I Gazed at You in Wonder - Poems (Paperback): Jan Heller Levi Once I Gazed at You in Wonder - Poems (Paperback)
Jan Heller Levi
R560 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R80 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Alice Fulton, the judge for the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, calls Once I Gazed at You in Wonder ""quite simply, the most endearing book I've read in some time."" Readers of this audacious and, yes, endearing collection will agree. Jan Heller Levi has said that her poems are not confessions but conversations. Here, then, are her conversations with the world. What sets Levi apart, however, is that she lets the world answer back. Difficult fathers, ineffectual mothers are forgiven; ex-lovers are blessed. Sophisticated but never jaded, this poet looks in wonder beyond the self: a cup of coffee in one of New York's ubiquitous Greek diners can launch Levi into a meditation on truth versus compassion; a suite of elegies for her mother takes us from a hospital corridor to the studio of a television talk show where God is the guest; a poetry reading in which she shares the stage with a folk singer illustrates Levi's gift for illuminating the absurd textures of late-twentieth-century existence. Don't you have any happy poems? he wondered. Don't you have any cancer songs? I asked. With the narrative drive of great fiction, the consolations of philosophy, and the rigor of art, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder marks the entrance of a much-needed new voice and vision in the conversation that is American poetry.

A Muriel Rukeyser Reader (Paperback, Revised): Jan Heller Levi A Muriel Rukeyser Reader (Paperback, Revised)
Jan Heller Levi
R633 R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Save R55 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together works only sparsely anthologized or long out of print, this book is a resource for understanding the range, depth, and originality of this pioneering writer whom the poet Anne Sexton named "Muriel, mother of everyone."

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