Love comes first : poems /
From the Publisher: Love Comes First is Erica Jong's long-awaited return to her poetic roots! Here is Erica Jong's first book of all-new poems in more than a decade. Known and beloved for Fear of Flying and her many other books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Jong expounds on the most...
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New York :
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- 1: You Are There
- Holding on to the light
- Poetry cat
- Rapture
- Continental divide
- You are there
- In vitro
- Waiting for angels
- Thank-you note for a Grecian urn
- In the cloud forest
- Poem for a fax cover sheet
- Against grief
- I dreamed that the sea
- Figs
- Risotto
- In vino veritas
- Henry James in the heart of the city
- For Grace in the hospital
- Smoke
- 2: People Who Can't Sleep
- God of the chimneys
- When Jew kills Jew
- Sleep
- Sentient
- Prayer to keep back the dark
- Elephanta
- Speaking with the dead
- Collecting venetian glass
- Beauty bare
- 3: Aphrodite's Laughter
- Talking to Aphrodite
- Elegy for Pegasus.