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Haruko: Love Poems

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"Haruko/Love Poems", 1993, June Jordan] WHAT IS THIS thing called love, in the poems of June Jordan, artist, teacher, social critic, visionary of human solidarity? First of all, it's a motive; the power Che Guevara was trying to invoke in his much-quoted assertion: "At the risk of appearing ridiculous . . . the true revolutionary is moved by great feelings of love." I think also of Paul Nizan: "You think you are innocent if you say, 'I love this woman and I want to act in accordance with my love,' but you are beginning the revolution. . . . You will be driven back: to claim the right to a human act is to attack the forces responsible for all the misery in the world." Neither of them, admittedly, was claiming the love of a woman for women, the love of a man for men, as revolutionary, as a human act.

But the motive is "directed by desire" in Jordan.

But the motive is "directed by desire" in Jordan

Language: English

Pages: 140

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Serpent's Tail

Release: January 01, 1998

ISBN: 1852423234

ISBN 13: 9781852423230

Haruko: Love Poems

4.1/5 ( ratings)

"Haruko/Love Poems", 1993, June Jordan] WHAT IS THIS thing called love, in the poems of June Jordan, artist, teacher, social critic, visionary of human solidarity? First of all, it's a motive; the power Che Guevara was trying to invoke in his much-quoted assertion: "At the risk of appearing ridiculous . . . the true revolutionary is moved by great feelings of love." I think also of Paul Nizan: "You think you are innocent if you say, 'I love this woman and I want to act in accordance with my love,' but you are beginning the revolution. . . . You will be driven back: to claim the right to a human act is to attack the forces responsible for all the misery in the world." Neither of them, admittedly, was claiming the love of a woman for women, the love of a man for men, as revolutionary, as a human act.

But the motive is "directed by desire" in Jordan.

But the motive is "directed by desire" in Jordan

Language: English

Pages: 140

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Serpent's Tail

Release: January 01, 1998

ISBN: 1852423234

ISBN 13: 9781852423230

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