SOURCE: Baker, David. “Probable Reason, Possible Joy.” In Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry, pp. 199-204. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
In the following excerpt, Baker explains Jordan's motivation for ignoring Western standards of poetry to create an immediate, direct voice of political activism.
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