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A. Van Jordan
A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry. He has been a finalist for the Rilke Prize and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award. He is the humanities and sciences chair of English literature at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.
A. Van Jordan
A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry. He has been a finalist for the Rilke Prize and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award. He is the humanities and sciences chair of English literature at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.
Books by A. Van Jordan
M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems
A. Van Jordan
Paperback, 2006
"Jordan is a wizard at capturing vernacular in both conventional forms and his own invention." --Black Issues Book ReviewThe Cineaste: Poems
A. Van Jordan
Hardback, 2013
A remarkable montage of poems that explore film, poetry, and the elusiveness of reverie.The Cineaste: Poems
A. Van Jordan
Paperback, 2014
“Finds evocative new ways to connect us to a shared storytelling heritage.”—Entertainment WeeklyQuantum Lyrics: Poems
A. Van Jordan
Paperback, 2009
"Fearless hybridization.... Jordan creates spaces where physics and poetry, comic books and jazz, memory and loss, come together."—American ProspectThe Cineaste: Poems
A. Van Jordan
E Book, 2013
“Finds evocative new ways to connect us to a shared storytelling heritage.”—Entertainment Weekly