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Four Reincarnations: Poems

Four Reincarnations: Poems

Ritvo, Max

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1639552375
ISBN13: 9781639552375
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Feb 24 2026
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.

When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations 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.

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