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Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship

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by Sarah Ruhl, Max Ritvo
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sarah Ruhl, Max RitvoPublish date:2018-09-18Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Milkweed EditionsISBN-13:9781571313690ISBN-10:1571313699UPC:9781571313690Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, PoetryBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Artists, Architects, Photographers, AmericanSize:8.60 x 5.70 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCA0MWQF4J

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Milkweed EditionsISBN-13:9781571313690ISBN-10:1571313699UPC:9781571313690Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, PoetryBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Artists, Architects, Photographers, AmericanSize:8.60 x 5.70 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCA0MWQF4J
Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee, and author of the book 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a midcareer playwright, and the Steinberg Award. She is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family. 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.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions

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