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Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism .
Fear of Flying is a 1973 novel by Erica Jong.It became controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality, and figured in the development of second-wave feminism.. The novel is written in the first person, narrated by its protagonist, Isadora Zelda White Stollerman Wing, a 29-year-old poet who has published two books of poetry.
Erica Jong, Loveroot Kenneth Koch , The Art of Love W. S. Merwin , The First Four Books of Poems , containing A Mask for Janus , The Dancing Bears , Green with Beasts , and The Drunk in the Furnace , New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press ) [ 19 ]
The award-winning author of 'Fear of Flying' on Jenny Offill, 'Leaves of Grass,' and the Book That Everyone Should Read.
The song's lyric is thought to have been inspired by the poem "My Heart's in the Highlands" published in 1790 by Scottish poet Robert Burns, whom Dylan later cited as his greatest influence. [3] In the song's lyrics, Dylan makes references to musician Neil Young and author Erica Jong. [4]
The book is written as a collage novel, variously incorporating letters, poems, drama scenes, dream visions and drawings. [1] It appropriates text from Acker's earlier chapbook "Hello, I'm Erica Jong", addressed passive-aggressively and vulgarly towards novelist and feminist satirist Erica Jong , as well as from works by other authors ...
Erica Jong wrote "...when I was searching for the freedom to write [the 1973 novel] Fear of Flying, I picked up Tropic of Cancer and the sheer exuberance of the prose unlocked something in me." [ 8 ] : 14 In turn, Miller praised Fear of Flying in 1974, comparing it to Tropic of Cancer .
The lyrics to "For All Those Who Died" were taken from a poem by Erica Jong, first published in her book Witches (1981), [3] while the first three verses of "A Fine Day to Die" are taken from "Cassilda's Song" of Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow. The front cover comes from the painting The Wild Hunt of Odin (1872) by Peter Nicolai Arbo.