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    Nothing Less Than Love

    Selected Essays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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    Author June Jordan
    Introduction by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
    Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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    On sale Feb 02, 2027 | 288 Pages | 9780143139416
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    An ideal introduction to the work of the poet, activist, and visionary whom Toni Morrison called “our premiere Black woman essayist,” Nothing Less Than Love brings together for the first time June Jordan’s essential writings on the revolutionary power of love.

    A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper

    Love is dangerous. That is why the most stringently censored Black feminist poet and essayist of the twentieth century has a body of work suffused with it. The most widely published African American writer of her time, June Jordan was on the front lines of American literature and international injustice, a courageous agitator for change who wrote with love and ferocity. This volume, drawn from the full span of her career, makes manifest her vision of a lover who is a fighter, and a fighter who is always motivated by love. From her own battle with breast cancer to her exploration of Black English, she offers an example of how to find enough love within our rage both to make change and to care for our communities and for future generations. This is how we learn to understand the stakes of love—with June Jordan as our passionate teacher.
    June Jordan (1936−2002) was a poet, activist, journalist, essayist, teacher, and the author of more than twenty-five works of poetry, fiction, essays, and children’s books. Active in the civil rights, feminist, antiwar, and gay and lesbian rights movements, she was a professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she founded the influential poetry program Poetry for the People. Among her honors were a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a National Book Award nomination, and a congressional citation for her outstanding contributions to literature, the progressive movement, and the civil rights movement. View titles by June Jordan

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    An ideal introduction to the work of the poet, activist, and visionary whom Toni Morrison called “our premiere Black woman essayist,” Nothing Less Than Love brings together for the first time June Jordan’s essential writings on the revolutionary power of love.

    A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper

    Love is dangerous. That is why the most stringently censored Black feminist poet and essayist of the twentieth century has a body of work suffused with it. The most widely published African American writer of her time, June Jordan was on the front lines of American literature and international injustice, a courageous agitator for change who wrote with love and ferocity. This volume, drawn from the full span of her career, makes manifest her vision of a lover who is a fighter, and a fighter who is always motivated by love. From her own battle with breast cancer to her exploration of Black English, she offers an example of how to find enough love within our rage both to make change and to care for our communities and for future generations. This is how we learn to understand the stakes of love—with June Jordan as our passionate teacher.

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    June Jordan (1936−2002) was a poet, activist, journalist, essayist, teacher, and the author of more than twenty-five works of poetry, fiction, essays, and children’s books. Active in the civil rights, feminist, antiwar, and gay and lesbian rights movements, she was a professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she founded the influential poetry program Poetry for the People. Among her honors were a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a National Book Award nomination, and a congressional citation for her outstanding contributions to literature, the progressive movement, and the civil rights movement. View titles by June Jordan

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