{"product_id":"harukolove-poems-high-risk-books-9781852423230","title":"Haruko\/Love Poems (High Risk Books)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHaruko\/Love Poems (High Risk Books)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Jordan, June. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781852423230.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Haruko\nLittle moves on sight\nblinded by histories\nas trivial or expansive\nas the rain\nseducing light\ninto a blurred excitement\nThen\nshe opens\nall of one eye\nas accurate as longing\nas two hands beholden to the hunger of green leaves\nand\nrinsing them back\ninto regular breath\nshe who sees\nshe frees each of these\nbeggarly events\ncleansing them\nof dust and other death\nPoem about Process\nAnd Progress\nFor Haruko\nHey Baby you betta\nhurry it up!\nBecause\nsince you went totally\noff\nI seen a full moon\nI seen a half moon\nI seen a quarter moon\nI seen no moon whatsoever!\nI seen a equinox\nI seen a solstice\nI seen Mars and Venus on a line\nI seen a mess a fickle stars\nand lately\nI seen this new kind a luva\non an off the telephone\nwho like to talk to me\nall the time\nreal nice\nResolution # 1,003\nI will love who loves me\nI will love as much as I am loved\nI will hate who hates me\nI will feel nothing for everyone oblivious to me\nI will stay indifferent to indifference\nI will live hostile to hostility\nI will make myself a passionate and eager lover\nIn response to passionate and eager love\nI will be nobodys fool\nForeword\nWHAT IS THIS thing called love, in the poems of June Jordan, artist, teacher, social critic, visionary of human solidarity? First of all, its 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.\nBut the motive is \"directed by desire\" in Jordan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Profile Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44647303577653,"sku":"ByrdShop_1852423234","price":40.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1852423234_8e384298-1d4d-48ee-966c-072a29ebb4b3.jpg?v=1784369073","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/harukolove-poems-high-risk-books-9781852423230","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}