Overview
Searingly beautiful poems about compassion, resistance and desire by an iconic Black American activist and writer
Selected by Seán Hewitt as a Granta Book of the Year In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan''s poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relationships with men and women, political resistance, the need for self-care in a demanding, uncaring world and apocalyptic visions of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.A contemporary of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, June Jordan''s spectacular poetry remains profoundly politically potent, lyrically inventive and breathtakingly romantic. First published in 1994, Haruko/ Love Poems is a vitally important modern classic.
- | Author: June Jordan
- | Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Jan 26, 2023
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781800814813
- | ISBN-10: 180081481X
