American Literature IReadings for English 2327

Unit II: American Self-Fashioning and Revolution

The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America, or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley

June Jordan (1936–2002) · 1985

June Jordan’s essay on Phillis Wheatley is still under copyright, so this site cannot reprint it. The Poetry Foundation publishes it with permission.

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