Research Catalog

Title

Love comes first : poems / Erica Jong.

Author

Jong, Erica.

Publication

New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Description

95 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Here is Erica Jong's first book of all-new poems in more than a decade. Known and beloved for Fair of Flying and her many other books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Jong expounds on the eternal, universal topic of love. Using brilliant imagery and intense metaphorical insights to capture love in all its facets - the heights of elation, the depths of sorrow, and the longing of desire - Jong reveals the full spectrum of this deepest of human emotions." "Love Comes First is the perfect book of poems for those who want to bring eros into their lives. And this book is also the perfect place to discover - or discover again - the brilliance of Erica Jong."--BOOK JACKET.

Note

• Barnard Library copy: Barnard Alum Collection.

Contents

I. You Are There -- Holding On to the Light -- The 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 -- II. People Who Can't Sleep -- The 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 -- III. Aphrodite's Laughter -- Talking to Aphrodite -- Elegy for Pegasus.

ISBN

• 9781585426843
• 1585426849

LCCN

• 2008042190
• 40016411825

OCLC

• ocn231579520
• 231579520
• SCSB-5457529

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries