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June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint

10 best books like June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint (June Jordan): The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, Consensual Genocide, Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity, Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine, Not Vanishing, Walking with Ghosts: Poems, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems, Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry, American Dreams, The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader

The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song
AuthorEllen Bryant Voigt
ISBN1555975313
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning....
Consensual Genocide
AuthorLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN1894770293
This long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we've been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka's civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and...
Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
AuthorAurora Levins Morales
ISBN0896085813
South End Press sent out a call for manuscripts to selected writers in late 1997 or early 1998. I was in the middle of finishing my book Remedios, and consulted my other and collaborator about whether to take it on. She said to do it, but not worry, to write a B+ book not strive for A+. As a result, I wrote it easily,...
Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine
AuthorColin Kennedy Donovan
Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.

Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain...
Not Vanishing
AuthorChrystos
ISBN0889740151
essentially the english language fails me sometimes when i want to capture the depth of importance of experience, and i can't find words for what i want to say here about gratitude and reverence. this collection is full of love and strength and rage that all are incredibly deep and powerful. her form is...
Walking with Ghosts: Poems
AuthorQwo-Li Driskill
ISBN1844711137
This is a book of strong poems, it brings the reader through many emotions: anger, love, fear, sadness. He uses his words to educate, mourn, heal and take back power. He gives us his native language and traditions.

My favorite poem is his long one written after Reagan's death, "Eulogy for the...
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
AuthorMahmoud Darwish
ISBN0520237544
Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. He is a living legend whose lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world's oldest literary...
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
AuthorEssex Hemphill
ISBN1573441015
I recently found out about Essex Hemphill while I was frontlisting up-coming titles. In case you also didn't know, he was a black, gay poet and activist in the 80s and 90s who died from AIDS in the mid 90s. I found out that one of his most well known works was Ceremonies and of course, it's out of print. But my...
American Dreams
AuthorSapphire
ISBN0679767991
In the tradition of Alice Walker, this electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose.

Whether she is writing about an enraged teenager gone "wilding" in Central Park, fifteen-year-old...
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
AuthorGloria E. Anzaldúa
ISBN0822345641
Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer...
Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
AuthorMartín Espada
ISBN0393316866
Combining the personal with the political in his fifth collection, Martín Espada celebrates the bread of the imagination, the bread of the table, and the bread of justice. The heart of the collection is a series of autobiographical poems recalling family, school, neighborhood, and work experiences-from...
Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism
AuthorElly Bulkin
ISBN0932379532
Politics. Cultural Writing. New to SPD. The award-winning feminist and lesbian press Firebrand Books closed its doors last year after sixteen years in the business. The authors of YOURS IN STRUGGLE -- Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith -- have now made the 1988 Firebrand edition of...
Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
AuthorGayatri Gopinath
ISBN0822335131
By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity,...
Zaatardiva
AuthorSuheir Hammad
ISBN1892494671
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Well, I don't like this kind of poetry!
Surely there are some really good lines that I liked and quoted, but I didn't like most of the poems! They were kinda weak and prosaic - nothing special!.
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
AuthorRobin D.G. Kelley
ISBN0807009776
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of...
Memoir of a Race Traitor
AuthorMab Segrest
ISBN0896084744
I'm having a time in my life right now. I'll spare the details for this forum, but it has lead to my decision to read exclusively lesbian memoirs. I'm needing a bit of reflection in my life.

This book seemed like an obvious choice. I have a lot of surface commonalities with the author, Mab Segrest:...
The Way of Thorn and Thunder
AuthorDaniel Heath Justice
ISBN0826350127
Taking fantasy literature beyond the stereotypes, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels are set in a world resembling eighteenth-century North America. The original trilogy is available here for the first time as a fully revised one-volume novel. The story of the struggle for...
The Angela Y. Davis Reader
AuthorAngela Y. Davis
ISBN0631203613
For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism, critical studies and political...
Palante: Young Lords Party
AuthorYoung Lords Party
ISBN1608461297
In 1969, a group of young Puerto Rican activists founded the Young Lords Party in New York City, taking inspiration from the Black Panthers. Palante, the first book by and about the radical organization, is brought back into print here with new introductory material. Capturing the spirit and actions...
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems
AuthorSonia Sanchez
ISBN0807068438
Sonia Sanchez was, until a day or so ago, merely an unknown name in a giant roll call of poets unknown, but ever since I located this book on the shelf of my public library, I have not regretted meeting her.



Passionate, erotic, and delicately constructed, Sanchez's love poetry is the...
Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
AuthorMartin F. Manalansan IV
ISBN0822332175
A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay...
Games for Actors and Non-Actors
AuthorAugusto Boal
ISBN0415267080
Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and best selling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary Method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone - actors and non-actors alike!

This...
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
AuthorMumia Abu-Jamal
ISBN0896086992
In Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s best known political prisoner, offers poetic observations and reflections on life on this planet and on death row. In this collection of short essays and personal vignettes, which take on everything from...
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