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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, June, 1936-2002.

Contributor:

Levi, Jan Heller.

Miles, Sara, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Barnard BIPOC Alum Collection.

Barnard Alum Collection.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxix, 649 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2005]

Summary:

"Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan gathers the work from Jordan's ten books of poetry and includes many never-before-published poems - including a tender, fierce, and innovative collection of poems written before her death, in 2002, from breast cancer."--Jacket.

Contents:

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).

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Poetry, Winner, 2006

Other Format:

Online version: Jordan, June, 1936-2002. Directed by desire.

ISBN:

1556592280

9781556592287

9781556592348

1556592345

OCLC:

59756230