Internet campaign to websites, bloggers, and listservs specializing in black fiction, June Jordan, and young adult fiction Outreach to public and school libraries and library review media: includes wholesale advertising Featured at conferences: BEA, MLA, AWP, NWSA, PCA/ACA, mid-winter ALA, PLA Sapphire will be promoting the book during the FP's 40th anniversary celebrations (should receive media attention)
June Jordan (1936-2002) was a poet, essayist, journalist,
dramatist, activist, and educator known for challenging oppression
through her inspirational words and actions. She was the founder of
Poetry for the People at the University of California, Berkeley,
where she taught for many years. The author of over twenty books,
her poetry is collected in Directed by Desire; and her selected
essays in Some of Us Did Not Die.
Sapphire burst on to the literary scene in 1994 with American
Dreams. She is also the author of Black Wings & Blind Angels and
Push, which was made into the 2009 award-winning motion picture
Precious.
"A novel that's at once tough and romantic." New York Times
"There must be bridges if we are to reach our young. His Own Where
promises to be one." New York Times Book Review
This June Jordan treasure is a rare piece of fiction from one of
America's most vital poets and political essayistsa tender story
of young love in the face of generational opposition, a modern-day
Romeo and Juliet that sings and sways." Walter Mosley, author of
Cinnamon Kiss
Jordan 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.” Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
Whatever her theme or mode, June Jordan continually delineates the
conditions of survivalof the body, and mind, and the heart.”
Adrienne Rich, author of Diving into the Wreck
In political journalism that cuts like razors, in essays that
blast the darkness of confusion with relentless light; in poetry
that looks as closely into lilac buds as into death’s mouth . . .
she has comforted, explained, described, wrestled with, taught and
made us laugh out loud before we wept. . . . I am talking about a
span of forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by
flawless art.” Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye
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