The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
From June Jordan
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
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