Singing Lessons: Poems

For all of us who knew Kevin McIlvoy as a peerless fiction writer and miraculous teacher, here is the posthumous gift of his first poetry collection, Singing Lessons. Mc was a musician who found his truest instrument in words. Meditating on love, addiction, family, distance, the poems trace the dances we make, the songs we sing . . . the grit of the blues, twang of steel guitar, howl of harmonica-our haunted history as a nation. Yet the wild beguiling music of this work is all Mc's own: a dazzling dance in which "together we sweeten." -Sheila Fiona Black

Author: Kevin McIlvoy
Publisher: Press 53
Published: 04/23/2024
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9781950413775

About the Author
McIlvoy, Kevin: - Kevin "Mc" McIlvoy (1953-2022) published six novels-most recently One Kind Favor; a short story collection, The Complete History of New Mexico; and two collections of prose poems and short fictions, culminating in Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels. Singing Lessons is a posthumous collection of Mc's poems and prose poems, many of them first published in journals such as Scoundrel Time, The Collagist, Kenyon Review Online, The Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, Prime Number Magazine, and Willow Springs.

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