First Kingdoms

Like William Blakes Songs ofInnocence and Experience, thesepoems evoke childhood momentsfrom the dream-like states of infancyto the early exhilarations of nature,animals, games, school, sex, andthe earliest discoveries of love. Suchelusive memories are screened throughthe double lens of the boys innocenceand the grown mans more complexawareness. In exploring the world of the poetspersonal history, First Kingdomsalso records and celebrates a typeof childhood less and less known totodays digitally-obsessed generations.