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Love Comes First

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"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.

I love Erica Jong's poetry and I'm sure that Love Comes First is a delightful book. However, the kindle version of this is "First Comes Love" by Whitney Lyles. The sample version is the same. Don't buy the kindle version!

I was disappointed that the book was so dark, It did not lift my spirits and the title is a long way from how you would feel having spent time reading it. I purchased the book for inspiration in preparation for giving a speech at a happy event - an event that love was coming first at and I was forced to put the book down as I getting nothing from it.
To add insult to injury the copy sent on by Amazon.com was defectively bound.
Bottom drawer stuff.