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- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © Berea College
- ISSN
- 1940-5081
Abstract
Book Reviews _______________ Amy Greene. Bloodroot. New York: Knopf, 2010. 304 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95. Red wviee y b Jesse Ambrose Mgomeronty In William Wordsworth’s famous poem “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” the speaker credits a pastoral scene explored in his youth for “that blessed mood, / In which the burthen of the mystery / In which the heavy and the weary weight / Of all this unintelligible world, / Is lightened.” Amid the clamor of cities and the rush of the world’s modernization, the speaker’s memories of this secluded, bucolic scene provide him comfort and peace, acting as buffers against life’s darker aspect. Wordsworth’s poem appears early in Tennessee writer Amy Greene’s debut novel Bloodroot when the young Myra Lamb says that “it’s like he’s talking about here…He wrote this [poem] a few miles above a place in England…but I can tell he feels the same way as I do about Bloodroot Mountain.” Bright and arresting, Myra sees in Wordsworth’s lines her own almost mystical connection to her home, the titular Bloodroot Mountain. What is unintentionally claimed—or, perhaps, unconsciously anticipated —in Myra’s declaration of affinity, is the therapeutic relationship between landscape and memory
Journal
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 12, 2011