{"product_id":"nothing-less-than-love-deluxe-edition","title":"Nothing Less Than Love \/\/ Selected Essays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Pre-order, Feb 2 2027)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ideal introduction to the work of the poet, activist, and visionary whom Toni Morrison called “our premiere Black woman essayist,”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNothing Less Than Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings together for the first time June Jordan’s essential writings on the revolutionary power of love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLove is dangerous. That is why the most stringently censored Black feminist poet and essayist of the twentieth century has a body of work suffused with it. The most widely published African American writer of her time, June Jordan was on the front lines of American literature and international injustice, a courageous agitator for change who wrote with love and ferocity. This volume, drawn from the full span of her career, makes manifest her vision of a lover who is a fighter, and a fighter who is always motivated by love. From her own battle with breast cancer to her exploration of Black English, she offers an example of how to find enough love within our rage both to make change and care for our communities and for future generations. This is how we learn to understand the stakes of love—with June Jordan as our passionate teacher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJune Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e (1936−2002) was a poet, activist, journalist, essayist, and teacher, and the author of more than twenty-five works of poetry, fiction, essays, and children’s books. Active in the civil rights, feminist, antiwar, and gay and lesbian rights movements, she was a professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she founded the influential poetry program Poetry for the People. Among her honors were a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a National Book Award nomination, and a congressional citation for her outstanding contributions to literature, the progressive movement, and the civil rights movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs\u003c\/b\u003e (editor, introducer) is writing a biography of June Jordan and is the author of\u003ci\u003e Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she won a Whiting Award. In 2023 she won the Windham Campbell Prize for her poetry. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: February 02, 2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 288\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9780143139416\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 8.4 X 5.6 X 0.7 inches | 0.7 pounds\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: Literary Fiction, Politics, Biography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"June Jordan","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, Feb 2 2027) Paperback","offer_id":49055477989611,"sku":"9780143139416","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/covercomingsoon_0fc32c32-4e4a-4700-91e1-92152631b026.png?v=1782248303","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/nothing-less-than-love-deluxe-edition","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}