"Jordan begs us to trust one another and to tell the truth, to read the world more closely, to learn the wisdom of those who came before, who resisted before, and loved before. She laid a foundation, leaving a revolutionary blueprint for poetry to transform our lives beyond the white gaze and its literary imagination. . . .This book is not just a collection of figurative words; it is a tool for liberation." –Publishers Weekly, starred review by Aja Monet "This first posthumous volume to hold both [Jordan's] verse and her prose puts her back near the center of conversations where–with Audré Lorde and Adrienne Rich–she clearly belongs." –Stephanie Burt, American Poets "Read this reader, maybe beginning with Jordan's 'Poem about My Rights' or 'Poem About Police Violence.' If nothing else June Jordan will teach you how to love, no matter who you are. This book is the rainbow sign after all the flooding across America." -E. Ethelbert Miller for the New York Journal of Books "The wonder of poetry is that after the body burns off, the breath and bones, the residue of mischief, the fierceness and loyalty to truth remains. Don't you hear her beside us now, as we gaze into the dark? Doesn't holding these pages light your mind with impossible bravery?" –Cornelius Eady
