Becoming Light by Jong, Erica -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents Publisher’s Note Preface I New Poems

Lullabye for a Dybbuk Ode to My Shoes Alphabet Poem: To the Letter I Demeter at Dusk The Impressionists To My Brother Poet, Seeking Peace My Daughter Says Driving Me Away The Land of Fuck Middle Aged Lovers, I The Rain Is My Home The Raspberries in My Driveway In the Glass-Bottomed Boat Pane Caldo Nota in una Bottiglia To a Transatlantic Mirror Middle Aged Lovers, II Gazing Out, Gazing In The Demon Lover In My Cauldron Under the Full Moon I Sit at My Desk Alone Love Spell: Against Endings Beast, Book, Body The Whole Point The Color of Snow The Bed of the World

II Early Poems

Venice, November, 1966 For an Earth-Landing Still Life with Tulips Ritratto The Perfect Poet Autumn Perspective The Nazi Amphitheatre By Train from Berlin Near the Black Forest The Artist as an Old Man The Catch At the Museum of Natural History To James Boswell in London Death of a Romantic Eveningsong at Bellosguardo On Sending You a Lock of My Hair In Defense of the English Portrait School To X. (With Ephemeral Kisses) The Lives of the Poets: Three Profiles

III From Fruits & Vegetables (1971)

Fruits & Vegetables The Man Under the Bed Walking Through the Upper East Side Here Comes The Commandments Aging In Sylvia Plath Country A Reading Imaginary Landscapes The Saturday Market The Heidelberg Landlady Student Revolution Flying You Home Books

IV From Half-Lives (1973)

The Evidence Seventeen Warnings in Search of a Feminist Poem Divorce Paper Cuts Alcestis on the Poetry Circuit Mother The Eggplant Epithalamion Touch Gardener The Prisoner The Other Side of the Page

V From Loveroot (1975)

To Pablo Neruda Dear Colette Dear Marys, Dear Mother, Dear Daughter Elegy for a Whale For My Sister, Against Narrowness For My Husband Cheever's People Dear Anne Sexton, I Dear Anne Sexton, II Dearest Man-in-the-Moon Dear Keats Becoming a Nun Empty Egyptology Parable of the Four-Poster Tapestry, with Unicorn The Poet Writes in I Sunjuice Insomnia & Poetry

VI From How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

The Puzzle The Long Tunnel of Wanting You The Muse Who Came to Stay We Learned Doubts Before Dreaming The Dirty Laundry Poem Sailing Home Living Happily Ever After The Surgery of the Sea After the Earthquake

VII From Witches (1981)

To the Goddess To the Horned God Figure of the Witch Baby-Witch How to Name Your Familiar Her Broom, or the Ride of the Witch Love Magick Bitter Herb For All Those Who Died A Deadly Herbal in Verse

VIII From At the Edge of the Body (1979)

At the Edge of the Body Self-Portrait in Shoulder Stand My Death Zen & the Art of Poetry The Xylophone of the Spine Aura The Keys The Poetry Suit The Buddha in the Womb Without Parachutes If God Is a Dog Best Friends The Exam Dream His Tuning of the Night The Deaths of the Goddesses The Truce Between the Sexes Depression in Early Spring Blood & Honey Woman Enough Assuming Our Dominance House-Hunting in the Bicentennial Year January in New York New England Winter Jubilate Canis I Live in New York Flight to Catalina Good Carpenters People Who Live Unrequited Summoning the Muse to a New House

IX From Ordinary Miracles (1983)

Ordinary Miracles The Birth of the Water Baby Another Language Anti-Conception Perishable Women Anti-Matter Nursing You On Reading a Vast Anthology This Element On the Avenue What You Need to Be a Writer Letter to My Lover After Seven Years If You Come Back There Is Only One Story My Love Is Too Much For Molly, Concerning God Poem for Molly's Fortieth Birthday The Horse from Hell

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