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“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, T

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Author

June Jordan; Jan Heller Levi; Sara Miles

Publisher

Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781619320802

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Science, Poetry, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.8 / 5 (59 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14