B-FLAT CLARINET FINGERING CHART
Chapbook, prose poems | New Michigan Press, 2022
In B-Flat Clarinet Fingering Chart, Ryan Mihaly offers a window into the mind of the music educator that is part ritual, part revelation. The meditative prose harnesses the reflection of the basics, how the breath brings us back to the body. The sentences are simultaneously grounding and surreal and pose deceptively simple questions—what is it we share when we teach? How do we relate to how we breathe? At the core of the book is a voice of sheer wonder asking us to hear an entire song that is only the note E, a voice that considers practice and the soul to be enharmonic. Mihaly offers us ...a reprieve for the miserable. A provision, a ration of God. Breathe misery into your lungs as if the note alone could cure." —WHEELER LIGHT
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The Massachusetts Review
Tupelo Quarterly
Posit
Cutbank Online
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