Hearing Voices (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781734197006)

The poems in Hearing Voices are spiritual and evocatively material/physical by turns, frequently within the same piece: poems about death, love and the loss of love, time and its passing, war and torture and what it means to be human in our age, depression and survival.

That is, the voices of the title that Michael McIrvin channels are daemonic in the ancient Greek sense. These poems not only honor the dead, and there are imaginative elegies herein as well as ghost stories, but also the dying (a daemon not as ghost but guiding spirit), which is to say the poems also honor the living in all our complexity.

In Hearing Voices McIrvin manages to elicit the paradox of humanity: our suffering within the manifold mystery of being.

From Reviews:
Michael McIrvin's...vision quest and resultant insights into the complexities of human nature...exceed what most poets can ever hope to achieve. (Leonard Cirino)

McIrvin's poems...show an intensely illuminating focus on those moments when perception and metaphysics intersect. (William Doreski)

I am in awe of these poems. (Rob Whitbeck)

Author: Michael McIrvin
ISBN-10: 1734197005
ISBN-13: 9781734197006
Publisher: Fearful Symmetry Publications
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2019
Pages: 86
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d