Research Catalog

Title

Living room : new poems / by June Jordan.

Author

Jordan, June, 1936-2002

Publication

• New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [1985]
• © 1985

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Details

Description

134 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Poems explore subjects such as political conditions in the United States, the Nicaraguan civil war, and Black culture"--From Amazon.com.

Subjects

• Poésie politique
• Poésie
• Poetry
• Political poetry
• poetry
• Nicaragua > History > Revolution, 1979 > Poetry
• United States > Politics and government > 1981-1989 > Poetry
• African Americans > Poetry
• American poetry > African American authors
• Black people > Violence against > Poetry
• African American women > Social conditions > Political aspects > Poetry
• African Americans > Social conditions > 1975- > Poetry
• Political violence > Poetry
• Social justice > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Political poetry
• Political poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.
• Poésie politique.

Contents

From Sea to Shining Sea -- In the February Blizzard of 1983 -- Des Moines Iowa Rap -- A Poem for Jonathan -- Poem for Nicaragua -- Teotecacinte -- War Zone -- Photograph of Managua -- Report from the Frontier -- Safe: -- Directions for Carrying Explosive Nuclear Wastes -- Greensboro: North Carolina -- Problems of Translation -- Independence Day in the USA -- I Am the Fallen/I Am the Cliff -- To Sing a Song of Palestine -- Poem on the Road -- July 4, 1984: For Buck -- Poem for Dana -- A Song for Soweto -- Atlantic Coast Reggae -- Poem for Etel Adnan -- Richard Wright Was Wrong -- Easter Comes to the East Coast -- Song of the Law Abiding Citizen -- October 23, 1983 -- Look at the Blackbird Fall -- March Song -- Menu -- Addenda to the Papal Bull -- Poem for the Poet Sara Miles -- Poem for Guatemala -- On the Real World: Meditation #1 -- The Snow -- Who Would Be Free, Themselves Must Strike the Blow -- A Runaway Lil Bit Poem -- DeLiza Spend the Day in the City -- DeLiza Questioning Perplexities -- November -- Verse After Listening to Bartok Play Bartok -- Poem Towards a Final Solution -- 1981: On Call -- 3 for Kimako -- She Loved Garlic -- Assailant: Antonio Moore -- It Should Not Be the Death -- A Reagan Era Poem -- Apologies to All the People in Lebanon -- Tornado Watch -- Another Poem About the Man -- Story for Tuesday -- War Verse -- Poem Written to the Heavy Rain -- I Am No More and I Am No Less -- 1980: Note to the League of Women Voters -- On Life After Life -- Adrienne's Poem: On the Dialectics of the Diatonic Scale -- Grace -- Poor Form -- The Test of Atlanta -- Notes Towards Home -- Relativity -- Roots -- Home: January 29, 1984 -- The Cedar Trees of Lebanon -- Nightline: September 20, 1982 -- The Beirut Jokebook -- Here -- Moving Towards Home.

ISBN

• 093841027X
• 9780938410270
• 0938410261
• 9780938410263

LCCN

84024030

OCLC

• ocm11399046
• 11399046
• SCSB-1701072

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library