Singing Lessons

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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 </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Singing Lessons</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. 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</span></p>