{"product_id":"four-reincarnations-poems-hardcover","title":"Four Reincarnations: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMax Ritvo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, \u003cem\u003eFour Reincarnations\u003c\/em\u003e is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of \u003cem\u003eFour Reincarnations\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRitvo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMax Ritvo\u003c\/b\u003e (1990-2016) wrote \u003ci\u003eFour Reincarnations\u003c\/i\u003e in New York and Los Angeles over the course of a long battle with cancer. He was also the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eAEONS\u003c\/i\u003e, chosen by Jean Valentine to receive the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2014. Ritvo's poetry has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and as a Poem-a-Day for Poets.org. His prose and interviews have appeared in publications such as Lit Hub, Divedapper, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771439546656,"sku":"9781571314901","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5edb747dafd115a6c65871a0a1b2fc0e.webp?v=1780386586","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/four-reincarnations-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}