Things Shaped in Passing: More "Poets for Life" Writing from the AIDS Panemic

by Klein, Michael; McCann, Richard J.

• ISBN13: 9780892552177
• ISBN10: 0892552174
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-17
• Publisher: PERSEA

Summary

This important and passionate collection presents the work of forty-two American poets whose vision and language bear the impress of the AIDS pandemic, now almost in its third decade. It complements Poets for Life (Persea), the classic anthology of poetry on AIDS, and is also an update, presenting a poetry different from what has gone before, in which the elegist leaves the bedside to look at the whole fractured world, the world as it is, with AIDS in it. With its generous selections of the poets' works, as well as their brief personal remarks on the relationship of their poetry to their experiences of AIDS, Things Shaped in Passing bears witness to the extremity of our moment.

Table of Contents

Here, but Differently
Introduction
Metaphors for the Body In Extremis	p. 3
The Weight	p. 4
From A Language of Hemophilia	p. 5
The Care and Treatment of Pain	p. 13
El Dia de los Muertos	p. 15
The Distant Moon	p. 16
Age 5 Born with AIDS	p. 17
Aida	p. 18
Love Poem with the Wind of Calvary	p. 19
Sung from a Hospice	p. 20
From the Artichoke Capital of the World Namesake of Fidel, As In the Queer Part of San Francisco	p. 22
40 Days and 40 Nights	p. 25
Carnations	p. 26
The Gondolas	p. 27
Contemporary Culture and the Letter "K"	p. 29
Duende	p. 32
Trying to Flee a Dark Bedroom	p. 33
Jade	p. 34
Future Text Panel	p. 39
Poem for a Poem	p. 40
The Falling Sky	p. 42
Blood Positive	p. 43
Wednesday Mourning	p. 43
G-9	p. 45
Parachute	p. 60
D.O.A.	p. 62
Grosse Fuge	p. 65
One of the Rooming-Houses of Heaven	p. 70
Atlantis	p. 71
David Limieux	p. 82
Homeless, Section III from "Triptych"	p. 84
Lament	p. 88
Memory Unsettled	p. 91
The J Car	p. 91
Against Elegies	p. 93
Wednesday I.D. Clinic	p. 97
For Matthew Ward, 1951-90	p. 98
"Man Who Beat Up Homosexuals Reported to Have AIDS Virus"	p. 100
How Some of It Happened	p. 107
For Three Days	p. 108
A Certain Light	p. 109
The Promise	p. 110
What the Living Do	p. 111
Suite for Emily	p. 112
After the Disease Concept	p. 124
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS	p. 125
Inventory	p. 127
Althea	p. 128
Review	p. 129
Waste Not	p. 130
SFO/HIV/JFK	p. 131
Beauty	p. 132
Some Things Shouldn't Be Written	p. 134
Future Senses	p. 135
Nights of 1990	p. 137
After You Died	p. 142
Tony: Ending the Life	p. 143
The Useful Machine	p. 147
Here	p. 149
Manifesto	p. 150
The Bee-Eater	p. 152
Watching the Solar Eclipse with AIDS Patients in Infectious Disease Clinic, May 10, 1994	p. 154
The Illustrious Providence of Solid Tumors	p. 154
The Pathologist Dictates	p. 155
As from a Quiver of Arrows	p. 157
Tunnel	p. 158
From the Devotions	p. 160
In the Blood, Winnowing	p. 162
Poem to Begin the Second Decade of AIDS	p. 165
HIV Research Project	p. 167
Watching "Destry Rides Again"	p. 168
Kindertotenlieder	p. 169
A Plague for Kit Marlowe	p. 170
Blood Test	p. 172
Peschanka	p. 173
The End	p. 174
In Sickness and in Health	p. 176
To the Memory of David Kalstone	p. 178
The Night of Wally's Service, Wally Said	p. 178
William's Tale: The King of AIDS	p. 179
Baby Random	p. 182
So What Would You Have Done?	p. 183
For My Third Cousin Ray John	p. 185
Last Rights	p. 186
That Thing	p. 187
Waiting	p. 189
The Bruise of This	p. 193
How I Was Told and Not Told	p. 194
Pneumocystis	p. 195
Hmmmm	p. 206
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