From Publishers Weekly
Davison, a consulting editor for Houghton Mifflin and a poetry editor for the Atlantic Monthly , focuses on how he dealt with his paralyzing relationship to his parents and entered the publishing scene. PW called the 1973 original "a moving self-portrait of an intellectual's coming to grips with his personal and professional development." Photos.
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From Library Journal
This is the poet and editor's updated 1973 autobiography. Memory is a "treacherous talent" that "serves many priorities other than objective truth." Hence the title. Davison admits his childhood lasted until age 30, Harvard and England notwithstanding, due to his restless, hard-drinking poet father and his attachment to his mother. But then his mother died, he underwent therapy, and he married. He began his serious poetic career. He has known Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Robert Penn Warren, I.A. Richards, Thomas Wolfe, J.B. Priestley, Ford Maddox Ford, and is an editor for Houghton and Atlantic Monthly . The final part extends to 1990. Davison still yearns for his mother, but puts the past in perspective. Recommended for lay readers and scholars. (Photographs not seen.)--Kenneth Mintz, Hoboken P.L., N.J.
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Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
