Collected / revised

Love Poems

By June Jordan

Penguin Classics Deluxe edition

Original work
1993
This edition
13 April 2027US

Jordan’s earlier Haruko / Love Poems returns with a foreword by aja monet and an afterword by Adrienne Rich. The surrounding contributions frame an existing collection; this is not a newly written 2027 poetry collection.

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The edition guide

A closer look.

June Jordan’s Love Poems joins Penguin Classics in a deluxe paperback with a foreword by aja monet and an afterword by Adrienne Rich. The collection brings the intimate and political uses of love into the same field of attention.

Why return to this book?

The paired contributions offer readers two additional perspectives around Jordan’s poems. For someone choosing a first copy, the edition makes its framing clear; for a returning reader, that framing is a more useful point of comparison than the new publication date alone.

About the original work

The work was published as Haruko / Love Poems in 1993. Its first part follows a relationship with a woman named Haruko; the second draws together poems written across twenty years. This is a new edition of that existing collection.

Before choosing this edition

The afterword is not described here as newly written for 2027. No unpublished Jordan poems or expanded contents are claimed by this guide.

What this edition includes

  • Foreword by aja monet
  • Afterword by Adrienne Rich
  • Deluxe flaps and deckle-edged paper