Final Voicemails: Poems - Rilegato

Ritvo, Max

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 157131511X ISBN 13: 9781571315113

Casa editrice: Milkweed Editions, 2018

Riassunto

Even present tense has some of the grace of past tense, / what with all the present tense left to go. From Max Ritvoselected and edited by Louise Glückcomes 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 writing 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 antagonistand it is a part of the self. Ritvos poems ring with considered reflection on the enduring final question, while suggestingin their vibrancy and their humorthat death is not merely an end.

The Final Voicemails is an ecstatic, hopeful, painfuland completely breathtakingsecond collection.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Max Ritvo (19902016) 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. Ritvos 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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Milkweed Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 157131511X
• ISBN 13: 9781571315113
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 81
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile