{"product_id":"directed-by-desire-the-collected-poems-of-june-jordan","title":"Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDirected by Desire\u003c\/i\u003e . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, \u003ci\u003eDirected by Desire\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"These Poems\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThese poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ethey are things that I do\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ein the dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ereaching for you\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ewhoever you are\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eare you ready?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cloth edition of \u003ci\u003eDirected by Desire\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as a \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Book of the Year and received the Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJune Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/i\u003e and a prolific writer whose articles appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation.\u003c\/i\u003e After her death in 2002, a school in the San Francisco School District was renamed in her honor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Rice Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47543330439346,"sku":"9781556592348","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/imageloader_a421780c-d2d4-45f9-b8fc-b93a196df702.jpg?v=1780355847","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/directed-by-desire-the-collected-poems-of-june-jordan","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}