In the blood; a memoir of my childhood

In the blood; a memoir of my childhood.

Motion, Andrew.

David R. Godine

2007

326 pages

$24.95

Hardcover

PR6063

British Poet Laureate Motion (creative writing, Royal Holloway, U. of London) apparently observed his share of blood and that of others in his youth. Infused with blood as it is, he also keeps his narrative pure and retains the perspective of a boy who wanted no more pain, no more changes, and most of all wanted the world to be locked in his memory as he first encountered it. Motion makes it clear that he understood the power of his memory early on, and that he collected his visions as cells of the body he would need to become a poet. The result is a remarkable account of how the boy stayed the boy in some ways inside the man.

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