Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four
Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an
exciting new voice in American letters. When Max Ritvo was
diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war
correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are
dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest
spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied, communicating
pain, violence, and loss. And yet they are also erotically,
electrically attuned to possibility and desire, to "everything
living / that won't come with me / into this sunny afternoon."
Ritvo explores the prospect of death with singular sensitivity, but
he is also a poet of life and of love--a cool-eyed assessor of
mortality and a fervent champion for his body and its pleasures.
Ritvo writes to his wife, ex--lovers, therapists, fathers, and one
mother. He finds something to love and something to lose in
everything: Listerine PocketPak breath strips, Indian mythology,
wool hats. But in these poems--from the humans that animate him to
the inanimate hospital machines that remind him of death--it's
Ritvo's vulnerable, aching pitch of intimacy that establishes him
as one of our finest young poets.
General
Imprint: |
Milkweed Editions
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2016 |
Authors: |
Max Ritvo
|
Dimensions: |
223 x 147 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
96 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-57131-490-1 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-57131-490-3 |
Barcode: |
9781571314901 |
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