Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
Language: English
Published by Milkweed Editions, 2019
- Softcover
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- Title
- Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
- Author
- Ruhl, Sarah; Ritvo, Max
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1571313753
- ISBN 13
- 9781571313751
- Item weight
- 426 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.54x13.97x21.59 cm
- Seller catalogs
- Business, Memoir
A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018
In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer.
Over the next four years—in which Ritvo’s illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed—the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo’s exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. “We’ll always know one another forever, however long ever is,” Ritvo writes. “And that’s all I want—is to know you forever.”
Studded with poems and songs, Letters from Max is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.
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About the Author
Max Ritvo (1990–2016) was the author, with Sarah Ruhl, of Letters from Max. He was also the author of two collections of poems, Four Reincarnations and The Final Voicemails, which were published by Milkweed Editions in 2016 and 2018. His chapbook, Aeons, was chosen by Jean Valentine to receive the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2014. Ritvo’s poetry has also appeared in the New Yorker and Poetry, among many other publications.
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