Fruits & Vegetables, Jong's first book, was a sweet beginning for an exciting new poet. The title poems are rich and garden-fresh…. The images are fleshy, organic. They emanate from an observant and productive woman who enjoys growing bountiful fruit and vegetable poems for her readers….
Intriguing concepts about male-female relationships originate in Half-Lives…. On the other hand, her list poems begin to lose their effect in Half-Lives. In "Paper Cuts" and "Men," for example, an enjoyable humor is present with fairly interesting insights, but the all-too-frequent psychological conclusions now seem cute, too clever, and too facile.
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