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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan by June Jordan
Category: Poetry
Poetry. African American Studies. 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 wi ...Show more
Haruko / Love Poems by June Jordan
Category: Poetry | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relat ...Show more
The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Gathering poems alongside photographs and manuscript pages, the definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker)For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled from the other. Her storied career came to chr ...Show more
The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan; Jan Heller Levi (Editor); Christoph Keller (Editor)
Category: Poetry
...This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power and speak out against violence against women and police brutality. But Jordan also speaks on the signif ...Show more
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