Haruko/Love Poems (High Risk Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1852423234 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 140 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"The Heartbeat of a Lover's Soul" according to A Customer. June Jordan's poetry beats furiously in the name of love: for Haruko, for life, for real. Since the human language is inadequate to truly express this emotion, Jordan manipulates and bends the written word to fit the human heart. When she describes love as "yes directed by desire" ("When I or Else"),. broth for the modern soul A Customer This is simply a swell collections of poems. Some are sweet, others painful. All are provoking.. This book is damn good. A Customer This book is blood, sweat and tears. It is the sweet succulence of love. Her poetry is bitter and rich.
For HarukoLittle moves on sight blinded by histories as trivial or expansive as the rain seducing light into a blurred excitementThen she opens all of one eye as accurate as longing as two hands beholden to the hunger of green leavesand rinsing them back into regular breath she who sees she frees each of these beggarly events cleansing them of dust and other deathPoem about Process And Progress For HarukoHey Baby you betta hurry it up! Because since you went totally off I seen a full moon I seen a half moon I seen a quarter moon I seen no moon whatsoever!I seen a equinox I seen a solstice I seen Mars and Venus on a line I seen a mess a fickle stars and lately I seen this new kind a luva on an' off the telephone who like to talk to me all the timereal nice<
Moving on to love poems culled from four previous volumes, the reader senses Jordan's full range. Not only is heterosexual love given its due, but one poem seems to capture the transitional moment when the speaker wavers between her love for men and the newfound possibility of loving women. Her throbbing, relentless rhythm is so effective that readers find themselves mouthing the words. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Jordan's writing is sensual and hard-edged at the same time, insisting that passion exists among commonplace objects. Never answered, the que