HIV, Mon Amour: Poems
by Tory Dent
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Winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. (1999) 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Tory Dent (1958-2005) is the author of three volumes of poetry: Black Milk, HIV, Mon Amour, and What Silence Equals. Her honors include grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, and three PEN American Center Grants for Writers with AIDS.
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