Directed by Desire
The Collected Poems of June Jordan
by June Jordan
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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?*
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
June 2007, Copper Canyon Press
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Directed by desire: the collected poems of June Jordan
2005, Copper Canyon Press
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