Directed by Desire The Collected Poems of June Jordan

Name: Directed by Desire The Collected Poems of June Jordan
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ISBN: 9781556592348

ISBN-10: 1556592345

ISBN-13: 9781556592348

Edition: N/A

Authors: June Jordan

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" 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 …

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.01" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English