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Max Ritvo’s debut collection, Four Reincarnations, was published by Milkweed Editions shortly after his death on August 23, 2016. In 2018, Milkweed will publish Ritvo’s The Final Voicemails, a collection of early and late poems edited by Louise Glück, as well as Letters from Max, co-authored by Sarah Ruhl.
—peach and coconut flashes
behind vegetable prison bars—
that the prison is the mind,
that the pond is what we call thought.
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