Kevin McIlvoy

Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels, the last work of fiction from acclaimed author Kevin McIlvoy, showcases his artistic dedication to the irreal, the carnivalesque, to ghost stories, fairy tales and the very short form-writing that thrives in the edges, margins, and borderlands. Is It So? tunnels deep into the recesses of long-life experience. A retired dance instructor battles a flock of dive-bombing crows for control of his garden. A teacher and his students develop an uncommon bond with a toy parrot. A seeker in the alternate universe of a DMV is dispatched through numberless corridors to see the Clerk of Happiness. With clear-eyed and transformative vision-and confidence in the power of truths left unspoken-Kevin McIlvoy gifts readers "found" stories excavated from the everyday.

This book may be the most personal of Mc's prose works. In the autographical bits-disguised, as is all autobiography in all his works by veiling, distortion, and transposition-he is, as I see it, putting his heart in order. There is reckoning-the jettisoning of romantic notions about self and others, and acknowledgment that too often our self-delusions mean we fail to see what's beneath a clear surface. But there is equally present the hard-won wisdom of an elder taking the long view on life's trials and joys, and the inevitability of death. The forest ranger at the center of "In the Gila" chides the narrator, "You don't see what you should." But the outcome of their several uncomfortable encounters over decades is a release of the murky animus between them "all at once and for always."

-"From the Writer's Wife: An Introduction to Is It So?"; Christine Hale, author of A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: WTAW Press
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781733661942
• Artikelnr.: 68155026

Autorenporträt

Kevin "Mc" McIlvoy published six novels, One Kind Favor (WTAW Press), A Waltz (Lynx House Press), The Fifth Station (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; paperback, Collier/Macmillan), Little Peg (Atheneum/Macmillan; paperback, Harper Perennial), Hyssop (TriQuarterly Books; paperback, Avon), and At the Gate of All Wonder (Tupelo Press); a short story collection, The Complete History of New Mexico (Graywolf Press); and a collection of prose poems and short fictions, 57 Octaves Below Middle C (Four Way Books). His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Missouri Review, and other literary magazines. His short-short stories, poems, and prose poems have appeared in Scoundrel Time, The Collagist, Pif, Kenyon Review Online, The Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, Prime Number, r.k.v.r.y, Willow Springs, Waxwing, and numerous other literary magazines. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction. For twenty-seven years he was fiction editor and editor in chief of the national literary magazine, Puerto del Sol. He taught in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program in Creative Writing from 1987 to 2019; he taught as a Regents Professor of Creative Writing in the New Mexico State University MFA Program from 1981 to 2008. He served as a faculty member at national conferences, including the Ropewalk Writing Conference, the Rising Stars Writing Conference, the Writers at Work Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writing Conference. He was a manuscript consultant for several university presses and other publishers. He served on the Board of Directors of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. He died September 30, 2022.