"She
remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.'"
--Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle
Some of Us Did Not Die brings
together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose
writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last
writings and span the length of her extraordinary career, reveal
Jordan as an incisive analyst of the personal and public costs of
remaining committed to the ideal and practice of democracy. Willing
to venture into the most painful contradictions of American culture
and politics, Jordan comes back with lyrical honesty, wit, and
wide-ranging intelligence in these accounts of her reckoning with
life as a teacher, poet, activist, and citizen.