{"product_id":"9781852423230","title":"Haruko\/Love Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor Haruko\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLittle moves on sight blinded by histories as trivial or expansive as the rain seducing light into a blurred excitement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen she opens all of one eye\u003cbr\u003e as accurate as longing\u003cbr\u003e as two hands beholden to the hunger of green leaves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand\u003cbr\u003e rinsing them back into regular breath she who sees she frees each of these beggarly events cleansing them of dust and other death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoem about Process\u003cbr\u003e And Progress\u003cbr\u003e For Haruko\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHey Baby you betta\u003cbr\u003e hurry it up!\u003cbr\u003e Because\u003cbr\u003e since you went totally\u003cbr\u003e off\u003cbr\u003e I seen a full moon\u003cbr\u003e I seen a half moon\u003cbr\u003e I seen a quarter moon\u003cbr\u003e I seen no moon whatsoever!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI seen a equinox\u003cbr\u003e I seen a solstice\u003cbr\u003e I seen Mars and Venus on a line\u003cbr\u003e I seen a mess a fickle stars\u003cbr\u003e and lately\u003cbr\u003e I seen this new kind a luva\u003cbr\u003e on an' off the telephone\u003cbr\u003e who like to talk to me\u003cbr\u003e all the time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereal nice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eResolution # 1,003\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI will love who loves me\u003cbr\u003e I will love as much as I am loved\u003cbr\u003e I will hate who hates me\u003cbr\u003e I will feel nothing for everyone oblivious to me\u003cbr\u003e I will stay indifferent to indifference\u003cbr\u003e I will live hostile to hostility\u003cbr\u003e I will make myself a passionate and eager lover\u003cbr\u003e In response to passionate and eager love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI will be nobody's fool\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWHAT 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the motive is \"directed by desire\" in Jordan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Serpent's Tail Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059465994480,"sku":"9781852423230","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781852423230_p0.jpg?v=1763596979","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781852423230","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}