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Directed by desire : the collected poems of June Jordan / edited by Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles ; forword by Adrienne Rich.

by Jordan, June, 1936-2002.

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Copper Canyon Press, c2007.

American poetry -- Women authors.

American poetry -- 20th century.

American poetry -- Black authors.

9781556592348 (pbk.)

xxix, 649 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes indexes.

Who look at me (1969) -- Some changes (1971) -- New days : poems of exile and return (1974) : Conditions for leaving -- Poems of exile -- Poems of return -- from Things that I do in the dark (1977) : For my own -- Directed by desire -- Against the stillwaters -- Towards a personal semantics -- Passion (1980) -- Living room (1985) -- from Naming our destiny (1989) : North star -- from Haruki/Love poems (1994) -- Kissing God goodbye (1997) -- Last poems (1997-2001).

"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 her 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." 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, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and The Nation."--Provided by publisher.

American poetry.

Levi, Jan Heller.

Miles, Sara, 1952-

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