Directed by Desire
The Collected Poems of June Jordan
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 T…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61932-080-2
- EAN: 9781619320802
- Produktnummer: 22559320
- Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 640 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'898 KB
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June Jordan was born in Harlem. Her twenty-eight books include poetry, essays, and children's books. A beloved teacher and exuberant activist, she founded Poetry For the People, and was a regular columnist for The Progressive and a prolific writer whose articles appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms., and Essence. She died of breast cancer in 2002.
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