`` 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.
Copper Canyon Press Directed by desire: the collected poems of june jordan, paperback/june jordan
