"From the beginning, from my first collection
of poems ... my task has been the same: to write
out of a naked female consciousness for a culture that
has too often presumed the noun "poet" to be of
the male gender."
In Ordinary Miracles, Jong
writes about pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood, divorce,
death, the fear of love, and the rebirth of the spirit
and the flesh that comes only when one remains open to
loving. These poems are by turns witty, harrowing,
sensual, painful and passionate, with rhythms that are
subtle and flowing.
Published by New American Library 1983
139 pages; paperback
also published in hardcover
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