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A. Van Jordan
A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Cineaste, a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, and M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award, among other honors. He is a professor of creative writing at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.
A. Van Jordan
A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Cineaste, a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, and M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award, among other honors. He is a professor of creative writing 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