HIV, Mon Amour

by Dent, Tory

• ISBN13: 9781878818867
• ISBN10: 1878818864
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Pr

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.

Author Biography

Tory Dent graduated from Barnard College and received an M.A. from NYU. She was a fellow at MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and 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.

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