Black Milk: Poems

by Dent, Tory

• ISBN13: 9781931357265
• ISBN10: 1931357269
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-07
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England

Author Biography

TORY DENT, winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets, has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a finalist in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the National Poetry Series, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the Walt Whitman Award. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, and three PEN grants for Writers with AIDS. Her previous Sheep Meadow Press boook of poetry was HIV, Mon Amour (1999).

Table of Contents

When Atheists Pray	3	(9)
Immigrant in My Own Life	12	(2)
Huge Fragility	14	(1)
Flies in Winter	15	(1)
The Interfaith Chapel at New York Hospital	16	(4)
Luna	20	(2)
The Moon and the Yew Tree	22	(3)
Magnetic Poetry Kit Poems	25	(4)
The Defeat of Linear Thinking	29	(4)
The Part of Me That's O	33	(1)
SACKCLOTH-MOLD, tower-high	34	(2)
Woman, Resurrected	36	(5)
Black Milk	41	(35)
The Legend	76	(8)
Birth of a Masochist	84	(2)
Broken Consciousness	86	(1)
The Window	87	(2)
Lamentation for My Right Eye	89	(5)
Odes to Delayed Gratification	94	(7)
Time on Fire	101	(4)
Ochre	105	(1)
us	106	(2)
Drug Holiday	108