Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26 1942) is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry.   Although it contains many sexual elements the book is mainly the account of a hypersensitive young woman in her late twenties trying to find who Erica Jong is and where Erica Jong is going. Career
A 1963 graduate of Barnard College with an M.