Directed by desire
by June Jordan
American poetryPoetry (poetic works by one author)LGBTQ poetryLambda Literary AwardsLambda Literary Award Winner
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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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American poetryPoetry (poetic works by one author)LGBTQ poetryLambda Literary AwardsLambda Literary Award WinnerPoetry
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20th century
About the author
June Jordan
9 July 1936 – 14 June 2002
A Caribbean-American poet, essayist, and activist (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Jordan>Wikipedia</a>).
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