Five Poets

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What might a radical feminist think now that Erica Jong has declared a truce in the battle of the sexes? … What might a contemporary theologian say about the notion that God is dog spelled backward?

With ["At the Edge of the Body"], Erica Jong has convincingly demonstrated that she is beyond the censure of "wizened gray guardians of letters"—or anyone else.

Charles Molesworth, "Five Poets," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1979 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), September 2, 1979, pp. 8, 14.∗

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