The World Began with Yes

The author of Fear of Flying  “touches on her mother’s death, astrophysics and her own return to poetry, which ‘came / unbidden / as it / always / does’” ( The New York Times ).   Life challenges us to celebrate even when our very existence is threatened. Never have we needed poetry more.   Poetry was #1 New York Times– bestselling novelist Erica Jong’s first love, and she never left it. In a dark time, she celebrates life—the title of this collection, The World Began with Yes , c