"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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