The poet probes the sensual and spiritual world of today's woman as well as the meaning of love and death

Half-Lives

Literature & Fiction

JONG, ERICA

Poetry

Henry Holt Co.

Half-lives

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Fear Of Flying

Records the erotic fantasies and outrageous adventures of Isadora Wing who travels constantly in spite of her phobia of flight

Fear of Flying

Contemporary

The poet-novelist's third collection, consists of verse messages of love, fear, anxiety, and longing to fellow writers living and dead, to the outside world, and to herself

Loveroot:

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Loveroot

Isadora Uling with two marriages and a best-selling novel behind her, reviews the stages by which her life with Bennett disintegrated and finds genuine love as well as joyous adventure and sex in the never-never land of southern California

How to Save Your Own Life: A Novel

Literary

At the edge of the body

1979 Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1st Edition Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Here is the  twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Erica Jong's very first book: a surrealistic, funny, gastronomic, erotic, serious look at being human and female and American.Erica Jong, the best-selling author of Fear of Flying, and more recently, Fear of Fifty, began her literary life as a poet. Fruits & Vegetables, originally published in 1971, offers a glimpse into the daring, erotic imagination of a young author of great promise. Here is a writer who puts metaphors in her oven, fruits and vegetables in her bed. In her tide poem, Jong considers the character of the onion: "Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away . . ."Throughout her debut collection, Erica Jong demonstrates a remarkable adventurousness, erudition, lyricism, and command of the poetic form. At the same time, she examines many of the themes she will pursue in years to come. On the subject of desire, she writes: "The corruption begins with the eyes, / the page, the hunger. / It hangs on the first hook / of the first comma.... The corruption begins with the mouth, / the tongue, the wanting. / The first poem in the world / is I want to eat.For the many fans who have yet to discover-or rediscover-where the literary career of Erica Jong began, this special anniversary edition of Fruits & Vegetables, complete with a new preface by the author, is a must.

Fruits & Vegetables

Here is the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Erica Jong's very first book: a surrealistic, funny, gastronomic, erotic, serious look at being human and female and American.
Erica Jong, the best-selling author of Fear of Flying, and more recently, Fear of Fifty, began her literary life as a poet. Fruits &amp; Vegetables, originally published in 1971, offers a glimpse into the daring, erotic imagination of a young author of great promise. Here is a writer who puts metaphors in her oven, fruits and vegetables in her bed. In her tide poem, Jong considers the character of the onion: "Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away . . ."
Throughout her debut collection, Erica Jong demonstrates a remarkable adventurousness, erudition, lyricism, and command of the poetic form. At the same time, she examines many of the themes she will pursue in years to come. On the subject of desire, she writes: "The corruption begins with the eyes, / the page, the hunger. / It hangs on the first hook / of the first comma.... The corruption begins with the mouth, / the tongue, the wanting. / The first poem in the world / is I want to eat.
For the many fans who have yet to discover-or rediscover-where the literary career of Erica Jong began, this special anniversary edition of Fruits &amp; Vegetables, complete with a new preface by the author, is a must.

Fruits and Vegetables: Poems.

Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

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Half-Lives

Half-lives

Fear of Flying

Loveroot:

Loveroot

How to Save Your Own Life: A Novel

At the edge of the body

At the edge of the body

Fruits & Vegetables

Fruits and Vegetables: Poems.