Four reincarnations : poems
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Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
79 pages ; 23 cm.
Status
Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
811.6 RITVO
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811.6 RITVO
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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. These poems 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ritvo, M. (2016). Four reincarnations: poems (First edition.). Milkweed Editions.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ritvo, Max, 1990-2016.. 2016. Four Reincarnations: Poems. Milkweed Editions.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ritvo, Max, 1990-2016.. Four Reincarnations: Poems Milkweed Editions, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ritvo, Max. Four Reincarnations: Poems First edition., Milkweed Editions, 2016.
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