Blood Memory

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<i>Blood Memory,</i> Colleen J. McElroy's collection of narrative poetry, emerges from deep seated memories with enormous emotion. Through the rhythms and musicality unique to McElroy's voice, it portrays an extended family, a complex culture spanning several decades, multiple victories and failures, and a single brilliant soul that frames the poems. Dedicated to McElroy's mother, the book is universal in its scope, inescapable in its earthy particularity. McElroy writes,"I am the last female of a family/ of women who wove the fabric/ of stories into doilies and slip coversÉ/" Blood Memory offers consummate storytelling and unforgettable poetry capturing a place and time gone forever. And as an evolving history, the poetry has a cinematic quality, large and intimate and at the same time, characters utterly vivid.

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<b>Colleen J. McElroy</b> is professor emeritus of English and creative writing at the University of Washington. She is the former editor in chief of the literary magazine<i>Seattle Review</i> and has published numerous poetry collections, most recently<i>Here I Throw Down My Heart.</i> Her latest collections of creative nonfiction include<i>A Long Way from St. Louie</i> and<i>Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar.</i> She has received a PEN/Oakland National Literary Award, the Before Columbus American Book Award, two Fulbright Research Fellowships, two NEA Fellowships (in both fiction and poetry), a DuPont Visiting Scholar Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Fellowship.

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