Ancestral Lines is a sequence of poems about 'the river of desire'
that flows through the lives of a family. In these poems Jeremy
Hooker recalls his parents and grandparents, and an elusive great
grandfather. He both honours the mystery of personal identity, and
celebrates the oneness of life through the 'lines' of generations.
The sequence conveys a strong sense of places in the south of
England, but in a special sense: it is grounded upon experience of
'the places that live in people', places that are a 'medium of
sharing'. A concern with both the gifts and limits of 'seeing' in
the sequence takes its bearings from his father's landscape
paintings. [...] The figures that appear in the poems are not
ghosts; the poet evokes them as real, loved and loving people.
According to his way of seeing, each integral being is only
partially knowable, yet also flesh of his flesh.
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