What Silence Equals Pa

by Dent,Tory

• ISBN13: 9780892551965
• ISBN10: 0892551968
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-17
• Publisher: PERSEA

Summary

The "brilliant and challenging" (Library Journal) exploration of living with HIV by the winner of the 1999 James Laughlin Award. First published in 1993, this virtuosic collection defined writing about AIDS for a generation of poets. Chaotic and incantatory, it is a submersion into the railing consciousness of a young woman on the precipice of mortality, its "dazzling and valiant poems...the psalms of our present moment" (Sharon Olds).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Words Aren't Cheap	p. 13
Spared	p. 15
Apology to the Doctor	p. 17
What Silence Equals	p. 19
The Mind vs. the Brain	p. 21
At the Dark End of the Street	p. 22
Accidental Poetry	p. 26
Only Human	p. 28
The Murder of Beauty/The Beauty of Murder	p. 32
Poems in American Sign Language	p. 34
Let	p. 36
Walking Away I	p. 44
Walking Away II	p. 45
Walking Away III	p. 46
from A Two-Way Mirror	p. 49
Listen	p. 54
Square One	p. 56
Beyond Belief	p. 60
Death as a Material	p. 61
Caught in Your Own Reaching	p. 63
Ash	p. 64
Many Rivers to Cross	p. 67
Eternal Snow	p. 72
Variations	p. 74
Jade	p. 76
Poem for a Poem	p. 84
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