The Final Voicemails: Poems - Tapa dura

Ritvo, Max

 
9781571315113: The Final Voicemails: Poems
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ISBN 10: 157131511X ISBN 13: 9781571315113
Editorial: Milkweed Editions, 2018

Sinopsis

“Even present tense has some of the grace of past tense, / what with all the present tense left to go.” From Max Ritvo―selected and edited by Louise Glück―comes a final collection of poems fully inscribed with the daring of his acrobatic mind and the force of his unrelenting spirit. Diagnosed with terminal cancer at sixteen, Ritvo spent the next decade of his life pursuing poetry with frenetic energy, culminating in the publication of Four Reincarnations. As with his debut, The Final Voicemails brushes up against the pain, fear, and isolation that accompany a long illness, but with all the creative force of an artist in full command of his craft and the teeming affection of a human utterly in love with the world. The representation of the end of life resists simplicity here. It is physical decay, but it is also tedium. It is alchemy, “the breaking apart, / the replacement of who, when, how, and where, / with what.” It is an antagonist―and it is a part of the self. Ritvo’s poems ring with considered reflection about the enduring final question, while suggesting―in their vibrancy and their humor―that death is not merely an end. The Final Voicemails is an ecstatic, hopeful, painful―and completely breathtaking―second collection.

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Acerca del autor

Max Ritvo (1990–2016) was the author of Four Reincarnations and the chapbook Aeons, chosen by Jean Valentine to receive the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2014. Ritvo’s poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and the Boston Review, and as a Poem-a-Day for Poets.org. His prose and interviews have appeared in publications such as Lit Hub, Huffington Post, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Editorial
Milkweed Editions
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
157131511X
ISBN 13 
9781571315113
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
88
Editor
Glck Louise
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