| Description |
xxix, 649 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Levi, Jan Heller.
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Miles, Sara, 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Jordan, June, 1936-2002. Directed by desire. Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)607634025 |
| ISBN |
1556592280 (alk. paper) |
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9781556592287 (alk. paper) |
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9781556592348 (pbk.) |
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1556592345 (pbk.) |
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