Who Look at Me

Title: Who Look at Me

Author: Jordan, June

Publication: New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1969.

Description: First edition, first printing of June Jordan's first book of poetry. Bound in full tan cloth with lettering stamped in black on the front cover and spine. The text is in the form of a long poem, accompanied by 27 black-and-white and color illustrations, depicting paintings of Black life. In original pictorial dust jacket, priced $5.95. 8.5 x 8.25 inches; [6], 97, [1] pages. Ink stamp of former owner on front free endpaper. Slight bend to the boards, spotting at fore-edge and on multiple leaves, dust jacket with moderate edgewear and a large chip and tear at the corner of the front panel. Very Good- in a Good dust jacket.

June Jordan was a celebrated Jamaican American poet, playwright, essayist, and professor. She published 27 books and frequently addressed issues of race and gender in her work. Of this book, she wrote, "We do not see those we do not know. Love and all varieties of happy concern depend on the discovery of one's self in another. The question of every desiring heart is, thus, Who Look at Me?"