{"product_id":"were-on-a-june-jordan-reader-9781938584350","title":"We're On: A June Jordan Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"June Jordan was not the blacksmith's daughter. June Jordan was the blacksmith. . . . She never waited around, not for anyone's permission, to write or act or be. . . . For this book to have its birth now, in the lopsided moment when we need it most, is no chance occurrence. This great woman blacksmith is still sweetly hammering us on.\" --Nikky Finney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, significant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision and moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry, prose, letters, and more, this reader is a key resource for understanding the scope, complexity, and novelty of this pioneering Black American writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Poem about Police Violence\": \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTell me something\u003cbr\u003ewhat you think would happen if\u003cbr\u003eeverytime they kill a black boy\u003cbr\u003ethen we kill a cop\u003cbr\u003eeverytime they kill a black man\u003cbr\u003ethen we kill a cop\u003cbr\u003eyou think the accident rate would lower\u003cbr\u003esubsequently?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI lose consciousness of ugly bestial rabid\u003cbr\u003eand repetitive affront as when they tell me\u003cbr\u003e18 cops in order to subdue one man\u003cbr\u003e18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don't\u003cbr\u003eyou idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue and\u003cbr\u003escuffle my oh my) and that the murder\u003cbr\u003ethat the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn\u003cbr\u003estreet was just a \"justifiable accident\" again\u003cbr\u003e(again)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople been having accidents all over the globe\u003cbr\u003eso long like that I reckon that the only\u003cbr\u003esuitable insurance is a gun\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keller, Christoph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938584350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Christoph Keller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32962776498251,"sku":"9781938584350","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_cf2e39ff-0e95-49ab-8f1a-71eb1552d939.jpg?v=1605737561","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/were-on-a-june-jordan-reader-9781938584350","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}