About A. Van Jordan

A. Van Jordan is the author of three previous collections, including M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, and his latest collection, The Cineaste, is forthcoming in 2013 from W. W. Norton & Co. He is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Michigan.

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Mel Brooks, 1975
What’s so funny about racism
is how the racists never get the joke.

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