Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union

In a collection of essays, the poet, essayist, activist, and teacher discusses growing up in Brooklyn, the myths of race and class, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jesse Jackson, the poverty of American education, and other topics. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

"Major and indispensable...We see at work the committed, passionate, revolutionary creative mind that will, when embodied in the collective consciousness of us all, help deliver us from the deceptions, if not the violence, of American life."--Alice Walker

"June Jordan is our premier black woman essayist....Written with the elegance and discipline of the poet, Technical Difficulties moves, provokes, startles and enlightens.''--Toni Morrison