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Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems Of June Jordan
by June Jordan

    Publication Date: Jun 01, 2007
    List Price: $24.00
    Format: Paperback, 640 pages
    Classification: Poetry
    ISBN13: 9781556592348
    Imprint: Copper Canyon Press
    Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
    Parent Company: Copper Canyon Press

    Paperback Description:

    Directed by Desire is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry.”—BooklistNow 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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