Research Catalog

Title

Fruits & vegetables : poems / by Erica Jong.

Author

Jong, Erica.

Publication

Hopewell, NJ : Ecco Press ; [New York] : [Distributed by W.W. Norton], 1997.

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Details

Description

xiv, 87 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• 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.
• 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.

Alternative Title

Fruits and vegetables

Note

• Originally published: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1971].
• Edition and distributor from jacket.
• Barnard Library copy: Barnard Alum Collection.

Contents

Fruits & Vegetables Recollected in Tranquility -- Seven -- With Silk -- The Sheets -- The Quarrel -- Downward -- Touch -- His Silence -- The Ecological Apocalypse as Foretold to Adam & Eve -- The Man Under the Bed -- Arse Poetica -- The Teacher -- Walking Through the Upper East Side -- Digging the Chinese Cemetery -- Here Comes -- Fracture -- Two More Scenes from the Lives of the Vegetables -- Cheese -- The Commandments -- Aging -- Bitter Pills for the Dark Ladies -- The Objective Woman -- The Man Giving Birth in the Dark -- Living In -- In Sylvia Plath Country -- A Reading -- Imaginary Landscapes -- The Saturday Market -- The Heidelberg Landlady -- Student Revolution -- Flying You Home -- Narcissus, Photographer -- Flower Eaters -- You Operate -- Books -- The Book -- Where It Begins.

ISBN

0880015691

LCCN

97018686

OCLC

• 1034944384
• on1034944384

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries