"Major and indispensable...We see at work the committed, passionate, revolutionary creative mind that will, when embodied in the collective consciousness of us all, help deliver us from the deceptions, if not the violence, of American life."--Alice Walker "June Jordan is our premier black woman essayist....Written with the elegance and discipline of the poet, Technical Difficulties moves, provokes, startles and enlightens.''--Toni Morrison From the Trade Paperback edition.