This Unruly Witness
June Jordan's Legacy
Becky Thompson author Dominique C Hill author Durell M Callier author Lauren Muller author Becky Thompson editor Alexis Pauline Gumbs editor Dominique C Hill editor Durell M Callier editor Lauren Muller editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Haymarket Books
Publishing:11th Nov '25
£19.99
This title is due to be published on 11th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A collection of bold and tender writing on June Jordan’s multidimensional legacy as a poet, healer, and activist.
This Unruly Witness was curated for people who see love as a life force, who seek a community that can sustain us, who know that “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” Celebrating the life and legacy of the poet activist June Jordan, this collection illuminates why we need Jordan more than ever.
Featuring an introduction by alexis pauline gumbs, an afterword from Imani Perry, essays, poems, letters, and interviews from internationally acclaimed poets and thinkers such as Angela Davis, Pratibha Parmar, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Naomi Shihab Nye, Afaa M. Weaver, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Jordan’s former students.
“Through poignant, funny, and searing reflections by so many who walked alongside Jordan, this collection offers readers of Jordan's work a living portrait of a great American poet.”
—Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, author of Something About Living
“If you do not know this poet, no matter how many material possessions you amass—you are impoverished.”
—Regie Gibson, Massachusetts Poet Laureate
“For June, the struggle ultimately was about and in the service of love. The ways this book allows both to coexist is impressive.”
—Cornelius Eady, author of Brutal Imagination
ISBN: 9798888904572
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
304 pages