First Kingdoms

Like William Blakes Songs of

Innocence and Experience, these

poems evoke childhood moments

from the dream-like states of infancy

to the early exhilarations of nature,

animals, games, school, sex, and

the earliest discoveries of love. Such

elusive memories are screened through

the double lens of the boys innocence

and the grown mans more complex

awareness.

In exploring the world of the poets

personal history, First Kingdoms

also records and celebrates a type

of childhood less and less known to

todays digitally-obsessed generations.