Love Comes First

"Sometimes the poem,doesn't want to come,it hides like a playful cat who has run under the house and lurks among slugs roots and spider's eyes - left so long out in the sun that it is dank with the breath of a troll king" from the poem Poetry Cat my favorite one Let me start off by saying I hate her famous book,Fear for Flying, its so gross. Luckilly, she has matured into a much better person. I read her book Shylock's daughter many years ago for a book festival in high school and it was really special. I currently read her blog on Huffpo and saw her in New York at the Y, and thought she was pretty fantastic. This is like reading a fairytale,she weaves the words together like a multicolored scarf. Its like little slices of her life stuffed into poetry. She deals with every thing in her poems,Italy,nature, annoyances of technology, her very unique view as god as a woman and even alchoholism. You can see where's she been and what kind of person she is ,a very warm,funny energetic,who is too brave and wild for her own good.If you are depressed about the economy on anything else, please read this, it will make you feel like a brand new person.

In this collection of lyrical poems, Erica Jong, who wrote the infamous book //Fear of Flying// that captured the women's sexual revolution, speaks with the confidence of a trusted friend. Her voice is warm and steady in its revelations, revelations that speak to our most universal human concern. What is the complete life? Jong's poems urge us to capture greater self-awareness--that thing that remains elusive to many of us but that can be found in the fingers of children and the stories of those who have lived long lives. Her poems highlight this and remind us, that even as our time on earth is limited, we can live lives infused with joy. We can do so by releasing our fears of death and by paying attention to words, to the beauty of language, and to the worlds around us. These words and worlds live on forever, and so do we, when we allow ourselves to become a part of them. This collection will be valuable to poets and poetry enthusiasts. It will appeal to all those who love words and who want to be patient with the journey of life. Turn to Erica Jong's poems "Sleep" and "Speaking with the Dead" and find that everything that makes us alive is never lost. Reviewed by Viola Allo