SOLDIER: A Poet's Childhood.
by Jordan, June
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0465036813
- ISBN 13
- 9780465036813
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Basic Books / Civitas Books, , (2000). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A memoir of her first 12 years when her father told her there was a war against Black people and she had to become a soldier. He was a "proud Jamaican immigrant who encouraged his daughter to read, and took her to museums and to Carnegie Hall, but also called her 'damn black devil child' and beat her for the slightest misstep. He moved his family from a Harlem housing project to their own home in Brooklyn, enrolled June at a white boarding school, and fought savagely with his wife, who argued, 'The child is a Black girl ... you gwine to make her afraid to be sheself!' Jordan reproduces the rhythms of West Indian speech as vividly as she captures African American culture of the 1930s and '40s in a poignant autobiography that, for all its racial particularity, tells an all-American story of the charged emotional legacy bequeathed by parents striving to give their children a better life." (Wendy Smith) 261 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84210
- Title
- SOLDIER: A Poet's Childhood.
- Author
- Jordan, June
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0465036813
- ISBN 13
- 9780465036813
- Publisher
- Basic Books / Civitas Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2000)
- Keywords
- autobiography, poet,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Literature;
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