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    44 poems for you
    44 poems for you
    44 poems for you
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    44 poems for you

    By Sarah Ruhl

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    Playwright Sarah Ruhl’s first book of poetry, 44 Poems for You, offers poems that form a subtle, personal meditation on family, motherhood, and loss. With a finely tuned ear for language, Ruhl’s poetry sings with a humbling honesty about what it means to share our lives with others and with those who form our hollows: a miscarriage, a close friend lost to cancer, and the sublimity of nature. She delves into womanhood through the physical reality of the everyday, and shows us life through her hands—making terrariums or jam with her husband, holding a child, grasping the counter as she bleeds. Succinct and contemplative, generous and wise, Sarah Ruhl—one of the greatest contemporary playwrights working today—addresses these poems to you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopper Canyon Press
    Release dateMar 31, 2020
    ISBN9781619322158
    44 poems for you
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    Sarah Ruhl

    Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, and poet. Her fifteen plays include In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play), The Clean House, and Eurydice. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony Award nominee, and the recipient of the MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. Her plays have been produced on- and off-Broadway, around the country, internationally, and have been translated into many languages. Her book 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write was a New York Times Notable Book. Her other books include Letters from Max, with Max Ritvo, and 44 Poems for You. She has received the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Samuel French Award, the Feminist Press Under 40 Award, the National Theater Conference Person of the Year Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Whiting Award, a Lily Award, and a PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for mid-career playwrights. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tony Charuvastra, who is a child psychiatrist, and their three children. You can read more about her work at SarahRuhlPlaywright.com.

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      44 poems for you - Sarah Ruhl

      44 Poems for You

      SARAH RUHL

      COPPER CANYON

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      This e-book edition was created through a special grant provided by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

      For Tony

      Personism, a movement which I recently founded and

      which nobody knows about, interests me a great deal…

      It was founded by me after lunch with LeRoi Jones

      on August 27, 1959, a day in which I was in love with

      someone (not Roi, by the way, a blond). I went back

      to work and wrote a poem for this person. While I was

      writing it I was realizing that if I wanted to I could

      use the telephone instead of writing the poem, and so

      Personism was born. It’s a very exciting movement

      which will undoubtedly have lots of adherents. It puts

      the poem squarely between the poet and the person,

      Lucky Pierre style, and the poem is correspondingly

      gratified. The poem is… between two persons instead

      of two pages.

      Frank O’Hara

      A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift.

      Lewis Hyde, The Gift

      Contents

      Title Page

      Note to Reader

      I

      I wanted music

      You made me soup

      Hope Street

      Marginal questions for snowless children

      Why are you so sturdy?

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