Becoming Light contains poems personally selected by Jong from her complete oeuvre of acclaimed published works poems of love, sex, witches, gods, and demons; word-songs brimming with wit, heart, bitterness, sorrow, and truth. From the earliest poetic musings of a brilliant young artist first trying out her wings to later works born of experience and maturity, unpublished before appearing in this collection, Jong's pure artistry shines like a beacon as she writes, fearlessly and passionately, about being a woman, about being alive. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
"Becoming Light contains poems personally selected by Jong from her complete oeuvre of acclaimed published works poems of love, sex, witches, gods, and demons; word-songs brimming with wit, heart, bitterness, sorrow, and truth. From the earliest poetic musings of a brilliant young artist first trying out her wings to later works born of experience and maturity, unpublished before appearing in this collection, Jong's pure artistry shines like a beacon as she writes, fearlessly and passionately, about being a woman, about being alive. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection."@en
"Poems deal with such topics as love, fear, anxiety, life and death, and joy and sorrow"@en
"A collection of Erica Jong's poetry that includes many previously unpublished poems."
"A lyrical voice of eloquence and splendor. She can bring peace or wry laughter, shatter illusions or dispel loneliness. --Los Angeles TimesPerhaps by the sheer energy of her imagination and the contemporaneity of her idiom and subject matter, Jong is the one to lead a large audience back to poetry. --Library Journal."@en
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