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
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.
