Elegy for a Soldier
June Jordan, 1936-2002
by Marilyn Hacker
I.
The city where I knew you was swift.
A lover cabbed to Brooklyn
(broke, but so what) after the night shift
in a Second Avenue
diner. The lover was a Quaker,
a poet, an anti-war
activist. Was blonde, was twenty-four.
Wet snow fell on the access
road to the Manhattan Bridge. I was
neither lover, slept uptown.
But [...]
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elegy for a soldier
Posted in Soldier, tagged death, elegy, june jordan, life, Love, New York on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
soldier–is jordan 4 real?
Posted in Soldier, character, chronology, class stuff, flashback, poetry, setting, voice, tagged ancestor, educator, june jordan, legend, performance, poet, poetry for the people, professor, ucberkeley on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
this was an unusual experience of a memoir (i can say this having read all of 4 memoirs in my life so far). this account of the first 8 years of june jordan’s life, contextualized by her adult self-knowledge, prove a surreal representation of who she is & what she lived for. i felt that [...]
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