Forevering is a memoir about practicing practice. When art theorist Carol Mavor’s beloved husband Kevin passed away unexpectedly, her lifelong practices collapsed. In a blend of lyric essay and poetry, Mavor reflects on living and doing after his death, relearning how to write and make art and love in a world without him. She also takes up horseback riding, giving her a new bond, a new being’s touch, and a new challenge with which she grounds herself in an unstable world. Mavor dives deep into the eternal pleasures and difficulties of learning, unlearning, and practicing the things that make up a life as she continues writing, riding, drawing, and touching, each activity bringing with it the joys and pains of remembering her life with her husband. Illustrating a journey to build and celebrate a life of endless practice, Forevering is a reflection on continuing to live in and through grief.

Carol Mavor is Professor Emeritus at University of Manchester and author of several books, including Black and Blue, Reading Boyishly, Becoming, and Pleasures Taken, also published by Duke University Press.

Carol Mavor’s Forevering offers a way of relearning writing as a sensory or nervous system form, a tender prospect in the face of a wrenching loss, the collapse of a structure. What emerges or ruptures from the in-between feels essential to this curious, open, and deeply embodied text.
-- Bhanu Kapil, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Preface
A Word on the Title
Forevering: Riding, Writing, Making, Loving, Grieving
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Titles