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Max Ritvo’s debut collection, Four Reincarnations, was published by Milkweed Editions shortly after his death on August 23, 2016. In 2018, Milkweed will publish Ritvo’s The Final Voicemails, a collection of early and late poems edited by Louise Glück, as well as Letters from Max, co-authored by Sarah Ruhl.
Poetry
—peach and coconut flashes
behind vegetable prison bars—
that the prison is the mind,
that the pond is what we call thought.
Poetry
The world wants me to know
it’s okay to slip into and out
of her. She likes it.
Poet Max Ritvo, who was 25 when he died in August, talks about music and revision in an interview conducted shortly before his death.
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