Jordan, June: We're On: A June Jordan Reader

Edited by Christoph Keller & Jan Heller Levi. Alice James Books (paperback, 2017) Culled from over twenty-five works of poetry, fiction, criticism, and collaboration, June Jordan’s pieces that appear in this reader showcase Jordan's ability to use language to punch holes in the fabric of political oppression, holes through which we just might be able to breathe. —Gabrielle Bates *** "These Poems" These poemsthey are things that I doin the darkreaching for youwhoever you are andare you ready? These wordsthey are stones in the waterrunning away These skeletal linesthey are desperate arms for my longing and love. I am a strangerlearning to worship the strangersaround me whoever you are whoever I may become.