"Promises of Gold"/"Promesas de oro" is a roller coaster of emotions. Sometimes there is grief, shame, nostalgia, melancholy, or distinct kinds of happiness. "Let's Get Married"/"Casémonos" is the top of the joy: it’s an uncontrollable voice that needs to say everything before the end of anything, there is no time, only the need of saying “please, be part of my life forever in each possible way." And I like it.
David Ruano González on “Let's Get Married” |
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Sarah Ruhl Mourns Poet Max Ritvo
"Ruhl’s play, adapted from a book she compiled of their correspondence during Ritvo’s chemotherapy, boils down to a single, yearslong conversation about poetry, love, mortality, the afterlife and soup. But this is not a traditional play. Poems and live music are interspersed between the dialogue, which comes from the letters, texts and voice mail messages they exchanged."
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Marianne Boruch on "So we get there just as"
"Words came later, by accident in a silent room at a desk. But back there, one afternoon in that desolate expanse my husband and I and a stranger, the three of us came together over that creature stricken by a fellow human we desperately wanted to disown, a driver hot to desecrate the planet. I can’t tell you the rage in me as that car grew smaller and smaller then slipped into nothing’s pure distance." |
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