Description
Title: Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997
Author: June Jordan
ISBN: 9780385490320
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed
Number of Pages: 99
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : With the same pithy but eloquent observations characteristic of Jordan’s classic poetry collections, “Things that I Do in the Dark and Living Room, ” and her notable essay collections, “Civil Wars” and “Technical Difficulties, Kissing God Goodbye” will strike a universal chord as it witnesses the pain, confusion, and passion of what it’s like to live in our society at the twilight of the twentieth century.
June Jordan’s many selves, as poet, essayist, feminist, and activist come together here in a collection of poetry that is alternately lyrical, magical, shockingly spare, pungently political, yet universally resonate. Beautiful love poems are interspersed with poems about Bosnia, Africa, urban America, Clarence Thomas, affirmative action, her mother’s suicide, and Jordan’s bout with breast cancer.
This collection of poetry will be warmly welcomed by June Jordan loyalists and new readers who will thrill to discover a voice that has been described as one of the “most gifted poets of the late twentieth century.”
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