Criticism
See below for a selection of reviews and discussions of Max's poetry.
The New York Times
An Introvert’s Guide to Friendship - Sarah Ruhl
Cancer Humor - Susan Gubar
Why Is A Poet's First Collection So Important - David Orr
Slate
Cuddling The Skeleton - Christopher Shinn
The New Yorker
The Poetry I Was Grateful For This Year - Dan Chiasson
Max Ritvo’s Enduring Lyricism - Dan Chiasson
Losing Max Ritvo
New York Public Library
Best Books of 2018, The Final Voicemails
The Adroit Journal
Born To Be Guests: A Review Of Max Ritvo’s The Final Voicemails - Glenn Stowell
Shelf Awareness
Letters From Max
Yale Daily News
Songs and Soup
Bomb Magazine
The Porous Fabric Between Life and Death
Michigan Quarterly Review
Until It Is One Round Tail: On Max Ritvo’s “The Final Voicemails”
Literary Hub
An Unfinishable Life
Columbia Journal
Review: The Final Voicemails
World Literature Today
The Final Voicemails
Publishers Weekly
The Final Voicemails
Letters From Max
Kirkus Review
Letters From Max
The Rumpus
A Legacy of Wisdom: The Final Voicemails - Risa Denenberg
Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo - Eric Farwell
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat for Max Ritvo
Poetry Magazine
Words that Sing, Dance, Kiss - Helen Vendler
Introduction: Max Ritvo - Don Share
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Wishes That We Harbor: The Poems of Max Ritvo and Heather Hartley - Stephen Burt
Publishers Weekly
Four Reincarnations
The New Yorker
2016: Our Year in Poems
Library Journal
Top Fall Poetry
Poetry Magazine
Do I Wake or Sleep?
Poetry Magazine (Podcast)
September 2016 (Dawn of Man)
The Poets We Lost in 2016
Artforum
Max Ritvo - Abraham Adams
The Iowa Review
Max Ritvo's Four Reincarnations - Devon Walker-Figueroa
Guernica
On Max Ritvo’s Four Reincarnations - Phillip Garland
Bomb Magazine
How to Suffer Well - Charlotte Liebermann
The Irish Times
Our Favorite Books of 2016
Booklist
Four Reincarnations
Literary Hub
Best Books of 2016
Notable Literary Deaths in 2016
Kenyon Review
On Max Ritvo's Four Reincarnations - Peter LaBerge
Parnassus Poetry in Review
Ecstatic Brain - Julian Gewirtz
Where is Max Ritvo's Heaven? - M. Sophia Newman
Whale Road Review
Missing Everything Living
Washington Independent Review of Books
November 2016 Exemplars - Grace Cavalieri
Southern Humanities Review
Love Re(Incarnate): On Max Ritvo's Four Reincarnations
Meridian
Review: Max Ritvo, Four Reincarnations
Tethered by Letters
Book Review: Four Reincarnations
Book Riot
A Great Big Guide to Wonderful Books of 2016
O Magazine
14 Health Heroes Who Are Changing Healthcare as We Know It
Verdad Magazine
Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo - Bill Neumire
The Scores
Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo - Meghan Maguire Dawn
The Millions
A Year in Reading
The Adroit Journal
Adroit's Best Books of 2016
Via Negativa
Favorite Poetry Books of 2016
Poets and Writers
Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Tulepo Quarterly
The Poetic Reincarnation of Max Ritvo - Hannah Star Rogers
Entropy Magazine
Best of 2016
Shelf Awareness
Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
Washington Independent Review of Books
November 2016 Exemplars - Grace Cavalieri
Speedway and Swan
Episode 30: Lisa Wells
Stuff
Hot Summer Books
Rain Taxi (Spring 2017)
Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
Nationale
Max Ritvo's "Four Reincarnations" Reviewed by Lusi
Booknotes Unbound
The NZ Book Scene's Favourite Reads of 2016
Ravishly
Ravishly's 2016 Holiday Gift Guide
I Want You To See This Before I Leave
Suzanne Highland
The Ontarion
Between The Sheets: Max Ritvo's First and Final Anthology Celebrates the Ephemeral - Sierra Paquette-Struger
Esquire Magazine
The Best, According to the Best
Bustle
7 Poems To Keep You Writing When The World Is Just Too Much