HIV, Mon Amour: Poems

by Dent, Tory

• ISBN13: 9781878818812
• ISBN10: 1878818813
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England

Summary

Tory Dent's is a voice like no other. Her use of language is virtuosic, complex, and plangent. These are daring poems that also dare the reader. HIV positive, Dent writes out of her own experience and profound refusal to look away or suspend feeling or turn from love. When her first book of poems, What Silence Equals, appeared in 1993, it was recognized as "immediately one of the great, necessary books to come out of the AIDS crisis, flinging its challenge in the face of death." With HIV, Mon Amour she moves further into the whirlwind -- as witness, lover, and observer.

Table of Contents

I. The Pressure
Fourteen Days in Quarantine	3	(9)
Future Text Panel	12	(1)
Voice as Gym-Body	13	(1)
The Pressure	14	(3)
Magnetic Poetry Kit Poems	17	(3)
Everybody Loves a Winner	20	(3)
Omen	23	(1)
Make Costly Your Tears	24	(1)
Family Romance	25	(2)
Palea	27	(1)
The Crying Game	28	(4)
Clash	32	(1)
What Calendars Have Become	33	(4)
RIP, My Love	37	(6)
II. Cinema Verite
Cinema Verite	43	(16)
III. HIV, Mon Amour
HIV, Mon Amour	59