Ever Yours, Vincent | McKenna Themm

  “In Ever Yours, Vincent, McKenna Themm creates the imagined world of a great artist — an interior landscape of nuance and seductive color. At the core of this book is a quest for self worth, for meaning, a quest that takes place within every human. A reader might hear her own inner voice when the poet questions how to protect the lingering innocence one struggles to release and how to give light and to preach light and to not get anything in return. Surely there is a moment when each of us wonders if our individual life will be a fit gift. Themm channels universal and profound questions through the lyrical voices of Vincent Van Gogh and his brother Theo while wisely keeping a finger on both her own and her reader’s pulse.”  Sandra Alcosser   “The title of McKenna Themm’s poetry collection, Ever Yours, Vincent, inspired by the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh, could be a valediction from one of the painter’s letters or a declaration to the artist by the poet herself. Drawing widely o