Directed by Desire
Subtitle: the Collected Poems of June Jordan
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Port Townsend
Language: eng
Number of pages: 693
ISBN-13: 9781619320802
Subjects: American poetry; Poésie américaine
Description: " Directed by Desire ... is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry."- Booklist 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 o.
Notes: Of Nightsong and Flight.
Table of contents: title: 9781556592348-frontcover; 9781556592348-text; Jordan_DirectedByDesire_e-frontmatter; Jordan_DirectedbyDesire_e-backmatter; CCPDonorEbook100112; Title Page; Note to the Reader; Foreword; Editors' Note; These Poems; Who Look at Me; Who Look at Me; Some Changes; For My Mother; In the Times of My Heart; The New Pietà: For the Mothers and Children of Detroit; The Wedding; The Reception; Nowadays the Heroes; Not a Suicide Poem; This Man; Fibrous Ruin; Abandoned Baby; Uncle Bullboy; Maybe the Birds; In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.; If You Saw a Negro Lady; For Somebody to Start Singing.; title: And Who Are You?All the World Moved; Juice of a Lemon on the Trail of Little Yellow; I Live in Subtraction; What Declaration; My Sadness Sits Around Me; Not Looking; When I or Else; Whereas; Or; Let Me Live with Marriage; Toward a Personal Semantics; Then It Was; San Juan; For Christopher; Leaves Blow Backward; Nobody Riding the Roads Today; Firing Burst His Head; In Love; What Would I Do White?; Okay "Negroes"; For Beautiful Mary Brown:Chicago Rent Strike Leader; Solidarity Day, 1968; LBJ: Rejoinder; Poem for My Family: Hazel Griffin andVictor Hernandez Cruz; Uhuru in the O.R.; title: New like Nagasaki Nice like NiceneBus Window; No Train of Thought; Poem from the Empire State; 47,000 Windows; What Happens; Clock on Hancock Street; Exercise in Quits; A Poem for All the Children; Cameo No. 1; Cameo No. 2; I Celebrate the Sons of Malcolm; In My Own Quietly Explosive Here; Of Faith: Confessional; Poem to the Mass Communications Media; Last Poem for a Little While; New Days; Conditions for Leaving; May 1, 1970; On the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the United Nations: 1970; Memo to Daniel Pretty Moynihan; Poems of Exile; Roman Poem Number One; Roman Poem Number Two.; title: Roman Poem Number ThreeRoman Poem Number Four; Roman Poem Number Six; Roman Poem Number Seven; Roman Poem Number Eight; Roman Poem Number Nine; Roman Poem Number Ten; Roman Poem Number Eleven; Roman Poem Number Twelve; Roman Poem Number Thirteen; Roman Poem Number Fourteen; Roman Poem Number Fifteen; Roman Poem Number Sixteen: Sightseer; Roman Poem Number Seventeen; Roman Poem Number Five; Poems of Return; May 27, 1971: No Poem; Realizing That Revolution Will Not Take Place by Telephone; On the Spirit of Mildred Jordan.; title: After Reading the Number One Intellectual American Best Seller, Future Shock, All about Change Is Where We're AtOn Holidays in the Best Tradition; For C.G., Because David Came in Hot and Cryingfrom the News; On Your Love; About Enrique's Drawing; About Merry Christmas/Don't Believe the Daily News; Poem about the Sweetwaters of the City; West Coast Episode; From an Uprooted Condition; Poem for Angela; On the Black Poet Reading His Poems in the Park; On the Black Family; For David: 1972; On Declining Values; It's about You: On the Beach; On the Paradox in Rhyme; About the Reunion.