Loveroot: Poems [Import] [Hardcover]

Erica Jong (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg (1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0436224461
• ISBN-13: 978-0436224461
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,730,045 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

ERICA JONG
(Bio used www.ericajong.com)
Erica Jong--novelist, poet, and essayist--has consistently used her craft to help provide women with a powerful and rational voice in forging a feminist consciousness. She has published 21 books, including eight novels, seven volumes of poetry, six books of non-fiction and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers such as The New York Times, The Sunday Times of London, Elle, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review and The Wall Street Journal.
In her groundbreaking first novel, Fear of Flying (20 million in print around the world in more than forty languages), she introduced Isadora Wing, who also plays a central part in three subsequent novels--How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues. In her three historical novels--Fanny, Shylock's Daughter, and Sappho's Leap--she demonstrates her mastery of eighteenth-century British literature, the verses of Shakespeare, and ancient Greek lyric, respectively. Erica's latest book, a memoir of her life as a writer, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life, came out in March 2006. It was a national bestseller in the US and many other countries.
A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University's Graduate Faculties where she received her M.A. in 18th Century English Literature, Erica Jong also attended Columbia's graduate writing program where she studied poetry with Stanley Kunitz and Mark Strand. In 2008, continuing her long-standing relationship with the university, a large collection of Erica's archival material was acquired by Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, where it will be available to graduate and undergraduate students. Ms. Jong plans to teach master classes at Columbia and also advise the Rare Book Library on the acquisition of other women writers' archives.

Calling herself "a defrocked academic," Ms. Jong has partly returned to her roots as a scholar. She has taught at Ben Gurion University in Israel, Bennington College in the U.S., Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Vermont and many other distinguished writing programs and universities. She loves to teach and lecture, though her skill in these areas has sometimes crowded her writing projects. "As long as I am communicating the gift of literature, I'm happy," Jong says. A poet at heart, Ms. Jong believes that words can save the world.

Known for her commitment to women's rights, authors' rights and free expression, Ms. Jong is a frequent lecturer in the U.S. and abroad. She served as president of The Authors' Guild from 1991 to 1993 and still serves on the Board. She established a program for young writers at her alma mater, Barnard College. The Erica Mann Jong Writing Center at Barnard teaches students the art of peer tutoring and editing.
Erica Jong was honored with the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature. She has also received Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, also won by W.S. Merwin and Sylvia Plath. In France, she received the Deauville Award for Literary Excellence and in Italy, she received the Sigmund Freud Award for Literature. The City University of New York awarded Ms. Jong an honorary PhD at the College of Staten Island. In June 2009, Erica won the first Fernanda Pivano Prize for Literature in Italy.

Currently Ms. Jong is working on a novel featuring "a woman of a certain age." Its working title is secret. Fear of Flying is in preparation as a BBC mini-series. Her first anthology, Sugar In My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex, will be published on June 14th, 2011.
Erica Jong lives in New York City and Weston, CT with her husband, attorney Ken Burrows, and standard poodle, Belinda Barkowitz. Her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also a writer.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Words of truth.................., September 16, 2003

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girldiver "Enjoy!" (tangled up in blue.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Loveroot (Paperback)

Erica Jong wrote words of truth for her experiences and impressions in this small book of poems. Like all her work fiction and not she delivers a book laced with herself. You feel apart of her journey as you read her poetic ode to Whitman, Sexton, Shelley, and Collete. As soon as you think you know this woman from reading her she writes a poem of her husband, her mother, her daughter, herself and then you know her soul.

And yes she writes of sex and the sensual but what harm is that we only exist because of sex.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars scathing poetic realism from a woman's perspective, April 1, 2002

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Pamela (Dubuque, IA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Loveroot: (Hardcover)

Many will find Erica Jong's writing shocking. This little book of poetry is no exception. The vantagepoint is wholly feminine, and not entirely happy. Deals primarily with the agonies of relationships, including many sexualized references. Wives, housewives, and rejected lovers will all find words to ponder here.

Some of the poems also address Jong's poetic predecessor's, such as Pablo Neruda, Colette, and Mary Shelley, and these little poems may probably cause you to re-evaluate the original authors in light of Jong's unique viewpoint. Sometimes scathing realism. Graphic language.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Loveroot Review, April 18, 2000

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Brenna (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Loveroot: (Hardcover)

Loveroot is a wonderful book of poems writen in in the late 60's. The poems are very feminist, as Jong was a very strong and outspoken woman. The book is divided into 3 sections, each include a nice handful of poetry. Throught the book you'll find many poems written for or about other writers, such as Whitman, Plath, Sexton, and Keats. Some critics say that Jong uses language that is very sexual, not common for a woman, and sometimes just too pornographic. However, this collection is not that way. This is her 3rd book of poems, and her themes are the same, but they are presented more lightly and with a bit more humor. Definately on collection to have for you own!