44 poems for you
By Sarah Ruhl
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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
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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?