Ritvo Max

The Final Voicemails (eBook, ePUB)

Poems
Redaktion: Glück Louise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571319906
• Artikelnr.: 56800312

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Editor's Note
I. The Final Voicemails
The Final Voicemails
The Soundscape of Life Is Charred by Tiny Bonfires
Delphi
Quiet Romance
Earthquake Country before Final Chemotherapy
My Bathtub Pal
Amuse-Bouche
My New Friend
Uncle Needle
Dinner in Los Angeles, Raining in July
Anatomic and Hydraulic Chastity
Your Next Date Alone
Nobody Asked Anything
Down with the Landlord
December 29
Tuesday
Name My Time of Death and See What I Do to You
Cachexia
Boy Goes to War
Centaur Music
Leisure-Loving Man Suffers Untimely Death
II. Mammals
Lajuwa Forgets How to Love
Troy
Bustan
Mom Myth
Broad Spectrum Romance Novel
Sheol
Too Much Breath
Atlas
Big Haul
C
Us and the Good Guest
The Oedipalean Sabbath
Postcards from Mount Blanc
Let's Talk about Banalities
Building the Tank
To C
January 8
Listening, Speaking, and Breathing
Sky-Sex Dreams of Randal
Happiest Moments (Autocaliban)
Last List
Tages
Acknowledgments