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...understand such a life? Pound has been little help to his often obtuse biographers. The best hope has been that friends and family would talk, a hope partly realized in this discreet but perceptive memoir by his illegitimate daughter, who is a poet in her own right and who has translated The Cantos into Italian. Though she makes no more sense than anyone else of that vast and buzzing head, she found in the little happenings of family life a language that helps explain his crusty heart. Looking up from knee height, she saw an Ezra Pound nobody else...
...moment at hand, Rosen's Friends will do quite satisfactorily. The very fact that it speaks for itself, rather than the whole damn generation, is a winning one. On that count alone, this memoir shines with an undeniably saving grace...
Larry L. King, a 42-year-old white man, has written a remarkable and sad memoir that, within its autobiographical confines, also manages to explain why the liberal anti-racism crusade is no longer an ongoing enterprise in this country. The book. Confessions of a White Racist, is on one hand a white's story of what it is like to grow up in racist America; on the other, it is a chronicle of the death of the civil rights movement...
...there reporting on the effects of the October 1969 U.S. Supreme Court order that 30 Mississippi school districts integrate immediately and completely. Beyond that, Morris was reluctantly bent on re-evaluating his own attachments to the South. Three years before he had published North Toward Home, a fine memoir of his boyhood and youth. Judging from the letters he received from Mississippi, he was not the most popular boy in town...
...work in her own narrative-helpfully adding the source-gives an idea of how naive her writing can be. Mrs. Updike has published several stories in The New Yorker since she took up her new career ten years ago, but her "novel" is really a semidramatized memoir...