I was blessed to read some of Erica Jongs masterpieces of poetry. But this book, "Here comes & Other Poems" is my most favotite. I myself write somehow poems in both Arabic and English. It is my pleasure to admit that Erica Jong's poems are most inspiring to me. I do remember a lot of lines of her by heart. Here you have two lines I love of her "Here Comes & Other Poems": "If a woman wants to be a poet,/ she must dwell in the house of the tomato." The expression "the house of the tomato" is well known in colloquial Arabic. But here, with Erica, it dresses a revolutionary battledress of feminisim. To end up my humble entry I call upon one of my favorite Western poets (Erica Jong): keep drawing dewy dreams of delight for writing snowy poems of light to brighten our Wide World night. There is a lot of darkness here, there and everywhere. Only devoted efforts of love, beauty and virtue, like what your ink is doing, can erase a little bit of that damned darkness.. letting a narrower margin of pure light to stand instead. Please, dear readers, forgive my "translated from Arabic" English. "Salamatt" (Greetings)!
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