The Final Voicemails: Poems - Max Ritvo

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Résumé :
Max Ritvo sounds like no one else-this is the rarest of all possible gifts. -LOUISE GL?CK

Biographie:
Max Ritvo (1990-2016) was the author of Four Reincarnations and the chapbook Aeons, chosen by Jean Valentine to receive the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2014. Ritvo's poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and the Boston Review, and as a Poem-a-Day for Poets.org. His prose and interviews have appeared in publications such as Lit Hub, Huffington Post, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Contents

Editor's Note

I. The Final Voicemails

The Final Voicemails
The Soundscape of Life Is Charred by Tiny Bonfires
Delphi
Quiet Romance
Earthquake Country before Final Chemotherapy
My Bathtub Pal
Amuse-Bouche
My New Friend
Uncle Needle
Dinner in Los Angeles, Raining in July
Anatomic and Hydraulic Chastity
Your Next Date Alone
Nobody Asked Anything
Down with the Landlord
December 29
Tuesday
Name My Time of Death and See What I Do to You
Cachexia
Boy Goes to War
Centaur Music
Leisure-Loving Man Suffers Untimely Death

II. Mammals

Lajuwa Forgets How to Love
Troy
Bustan
Mom Myth
Broad Spectrum Romance Novel
Sheol
Too Much Breath
Atlas
Big Haul
C
Us and the Good Guest
The Oedipalean Sabbath
Postcards from Mount Blanc
Let's Talk about Banalities
Building the Tank
To C
January 8
Listening, Speaking, and Breathing
Sky-Sex Dreams of Randal
Happiest Moments (Autocaliban)
Last List
Tages

Acknowledgments