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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Paperback
Black American StudiesGeneral PoetryWomen's Studies
Publisher Price: $27.00
ISBN13: 9781556592348
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: Jun 1 2007
Pages: 640
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry.--Booklist
Now in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan's -poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan's ten volumes, as well as dozens of last poems that were never published in Jordan's lifetime, these more than six hundred pages overflow with intimate lyricism, elegance, fury, meditative solos, and dazzling vernacular riffs.
As Adrienne Rich writes in her introduction, June Jordan wanted her readers, listeners, students, to feel their own latent power--of the word, the deed, of their own beauty and intrinsic value.
From These Poems
These poems
they are things that I do
in the dark
reaching for you
whoever you are
and
are you ready?
The cloth edition of Directed by Desire was selected as a Library Journal Poetry Book of the Year and received the Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Poetry.
June Jordan taught at UC Berkeley for many years and founded Poetry for the People. Her twenty-eight books include poetry, essays, fiction, and children's books. She was a regular columnist for The Progressive and a prolific writer whose articles appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and The Nation. After her death in 2002, a school in the San Francisco School District was renamed in her honor.
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