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This book had great drawings. Although this is a good reference book, I just could not put my mind to it.
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In prose and poetry, the witch is examined as historical reality and as archetype--Halloween hag, full-breasted seductress, natural healer, never without peer, scapegoat, and lingering vestige of a primeval religion--in a study that also features recipes for love potions, formulas for spells, incantations, and stunning full-color artwork. Reprint
176 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1981
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176 pages, Paperback
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March 1, 2004 by Harry N. Abrams
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9780810991217
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0810991217
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English
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Erica Jong—novelist, poet, and essayist—has consistently used her craft to help provide women with a powerful and rational voice in forging a feminist consciousness. She has published 21 books, including eight novels, six volumes of poetry, six books of non-fiction and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers such as the New York Times, the Sunday Times of London, Elle, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review.
In her groundbreaking first novel, Fear of Flying (which has sold twenty-six million copies in more than forty languages), she introduced Isadora Wing, who also plays a central part in three subsequent novels—How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues. In her three historical novels—Fanny, Shylock's Daughter, and Sappho's Leap—she demonstrates her mastery of eighteenth-century British literature, the verses of Shakespeare, and ancient Greek lyric, respectively. A memoir of her life as a writer, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life, came out in March 2006. It was a national bestseller in the US and many other countries. Erica's latest book, Sugar in My Bowl, is an anthology of women writing about sex, has been recently released in paperback.
Erica Jong was honored with the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature. She has also received Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, also won by W.S. Merwin and Sylvia Plath. In France, she received the Deauville Award for Literary Excellence and in Italy, she received the Sigmund Freud Award for Literature. The City University of New York awarded Ms. Jong an honorary PhD at the College of Staten Island.
Her works have appeared all over the world and are as popular in Eastern Europe, Japan, China, and other Asian countries as they have been in the United States and Western Europe. She has lectured, taught and read her work all over the world.
A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University's Graduate Faculties where she received her M.A. in 18th Century English Literature, Erica Jong also attended Columbia's graduate writing program where she studied poetry with Stanley Kunitz and Mark Strand. In 2007, continuing her long-standing relationship with the university, a large collection of Erica's archival material was acquired by Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, where it will be available to graduate and undergraduate students. Ms. Jong plans to teach master classes at Columbia and also advise the Rare Book Library on the acquisition of other women writers' archives.
Calling herself “a defrocked academic,” Ms. Jong has partly returned to her roots as a scholar. She has taught at Ben Gurion University in Israel, Bennington College in the US, Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Vermont and many other distinguished writing programs and universities. She loves to teach and lecture, though her skill in these areas has sometimes crowded her writing projects. “As long as I am communicating the gift of literature, I'm happy,” Jong says. A poet at heart, Ms. Jong believes that words can save the world.
In her groundbreaking first novel, Fear of Flying (which has sold twenty-six million copies in more than forty languages), she introduced Isadora Wing, who also plays a central part in three subsequent novels—How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues. In her three historical novels—Fanny, Shylock's Daughter, and Sappho's Leap—she demonstrates her mastery of eighteenth-century British literature, the verses of Shakespeare, and ancient Greek lyric, respectively. A memoir of her life as a writer, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life, came out in March 2006. It was a national bestseller in the US and many other countries. Erica's latest book, Sugar in My Bowl, is an anthology of women writing about sex, has been recently released in paperback.
Erica Jong was honored with the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature. She has also received Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, also won by W.S. Merwin and Sylvia Plath. In France, she received the Deauville Award for Literary Excellence and in Italy, she received the Sigmund Freud Award for Literature. The City University of New York awarded Ms. Jong an honorary PhD at the College of Staten Island.
Her works have appeared all over the world and are as popular in Eastern Europe, Japan, China, and other Asian countries as they have been in the United States and Western Europe. She has lectured, taught and read her work all over the world.
A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University's Graduate Faculties where she received her M.A. in 18th Century English Literature, Erica Jong also attended Columbia's graduate writing program where she studied poetry with Stanley Kunitz and Mark Strand. In 2007, continuing her long-standing relationship with the university, a large collection of Erica's archival material was acquired by Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, where it will be available to graduate and undergraduate students. Ms. Jong plans to teach master classes at Columbia and also advise the Rare Book Library on the acquisition of other women writers' archives.
Calling herself “a defrocked academic,” Ms. Jong has partly returned to her roots as a scholar. She has taught at Ben Gurion University in Israel, Bennington College in the US, Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Vermont and many other distinguished writing programs and universities. She loves to teach and lecture, though her skill in these areas has sometimes crowded her writing projects. “As long as I am communicating the gift of literature, I'm happy,” Jong says. A poet at heart, Ms. Jong believes that words can save the world.
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Exquisite artwork, and not a cloying watered down version of what the witch's tradition is to make it seem more PC. Said watering down usually occurs via denying sexuality as a powerful tool for the intellect or trivializing the power of radical acceptance (which I use here in reference to the diving into "evil" and "ugliness" to see what truly lies at the heart of such concepts). I appreciate that. There's a reason witches were viewed as being dangerous, as they embody the healer who is guided by the marriage of her intuition and intellect. The synthetic creative brilliance that distills the essence of "becoming" with which the book is crafted is a testament to the original practice, as much as the content is.
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Read this on my work downtime, now consider myself a Dianic proofreader-witch & hereby disavow the virgin birth as a false usurpation of the feminine power to give life.
Fun, concise little history of the witch archetype (as a construction of male fear of womyn and our SEXUAL POWAR).
There was a chapter on love potions that I glossed, some of the poetry was eh. Book also has beautiful illustrations.
Recommend to anyone interested in witches. Excuse me while I go perform nocturnal rites with my winged consorts.
Fun, concise little history of the witch archetype (as a construction of male fear of womyn and our SEXUAL POWAR).
There was a chapter on love potions that I glossed, some of the poetry was eh. Book also has beautiful illustrations.
Recommend to anyone interested in witches. Excuse me while I go perform nocturnal rites with my winged consorts.
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Beautiful pictures-
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A must have for any bookshelf. A truly gorgeous book!
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This book is just beautiful.
I didn't know that Eric Jong was sympathetic to wicca. I could have guessed based on her other novels. This was kind like finding out the Stevie Nicks was a witch.
I was transported to childhood or a place of childlikeness when I started turning the pages. I can't remember whether this was a book meant for children or if in fact the design of the book was to evoke exactly that feeling I mentioned above.
The graphics and colors are just absolutely gorgeous.
Mike
I didn't know that Eric Jong was sympathetic to wicca. I could have guessed based on her other novels. This was kind like finding out the Stevie Nicks was a witch.
I was transported to childhood or a place of childlikeness when I started turning the pages. I can't remember whether this was a book meant for children or if in fact the design of the book was to evoke exactly that feeling I mentioned above.
The graphics and colors are just absolutely gorgeous.
Mike
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This book is more of a coffee table book than anything. It compares Hollywood witchcraft to Wicca with lots of art and bad poetry. Some of the information is accurate but some is based on outdated information.
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Ces femmes qui connaissaient bien les plantes, ces guérisseuses, ces sages-femmes menaçaient le pouvoir masculin de l'Etat et particulièrement celui de l'Eglise. D'où la chasse aux sorcières qui les rendaient responsables des maux qui affectaient l'époque. Une intéressante étude des sorcières à la fois historique et rituelle.
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