{"product_id":"four-reincarnations-max-ritvo-9781639552375","title":"Four Reincarnations: Poems","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Max Ritvo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639552375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639552375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Max Ritvo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48217897173247,"sku":"9781639552375","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b707a3ed-2341-44e2-877a-87c3ef490019.jpg?v=1772000158","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/four-reincarnations-max-ritvo-9781639552375","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}