{"product_id":"hearing-voices-michael-mcirvin-9781734197006","title":"Hearing Voices","description":"The poems in \u003ci\u003eHearing Voices\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHearing Voices\u003c\/i\u003e McIrvin manages to elicit the paradox of humanity: our suffering within the manifold mystery of being. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Reviews: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael McIrvin's...vision quest and resultant insights into the complexities of human nature...exceed what most poets can ever hope to achieve. (Leonard Cirino) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMcIrvin's poems...show an intensely illuminating focus on those moments when perception and metaphysics intersect. (William Doreski) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI am in awe of these poems. (Rob Whitbeck)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael McIrvin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1734197005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781734197006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fearful Symmetry Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d","brand":"Michael McIrvin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48442523353343,"sku":"9781734197006","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0ed063f-9f56-44f2-8f77-42c575b56d72.jpg?v=1777197957","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hearing-voices-michael-mcirvin-9781734197006","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}