SOURCE: "The Whitman Awakening in June Jordan's Poetry," in Obsidian, Nos. 2 & 3, Summer and Winter, 1981, pp. 226-28.
In the following review, Boyd discusses the influence of Whitman evident in Jordan's Passion.
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