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Poets for life : seventy-six poets respond to AIDS
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- Summary
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An anthology of poems that focuses on the deep emotions felt by those affected by AIDS.
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- Creator
- edited with an introduction by Michael Klein ; essays by the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., Joseph Papp, and Carol Muske
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Crown Publishers, [1989]
- Physical Details
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- xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0517572427, 9780517572429, 0517527427
- OCLC
- ocm18959621
- Also issued online.
- The gifts ; A diagnosis / David Craig Austin -- Identifying things / Wendy Barker -- Maybe the jay / Robin Behn -- The plague / Marvin Bell -- A dream of nightingales ; In the waiting room / David Bergman -- No more kissing- AIDS everywhere / Michael Blumenthal -- Marches / Philip Booth -- Talking to Jim / Walta Borawski -- Mercy ; Walk on the water ; Stars in your name ; The moon of mind against the wooden louver ; The masseuse / Olga Broumas -- Almost to Jesus / Michael Burkard -- Desert / Michael Cadnum -- Kate ; The rush to ending / Kevin Jeffery Clarke -- A half-life / Henri Cole -- Elegy for John, my student dead of AIDS / Robert Cording -- Assistances / Alfred Corn -- Plague / Robert Creeley -- Vindictiveness of religion / William Dickey -- Faith-falling / Deborah Digges -- Heartbeats ; One by one ; The 80's miracle diet / Melvin Dixon -- Retrovir / Tim Dlugos -- Tiara ; Turtle, swan ; Bill's story / Mark Doty -- Good timing / Carol Ebbecke -- For Richard / Eve Ensler -- The veteran / Edward Field -- The first AIDS case in Selinsgrove ; The AIDS list / Gary Fincke -- Sphincter / Allen Ginsberg
- Frozen stiff / Brad Gooch -- A scene of the crime / David Groff -- The reassurance ; The man with night sweats ; Terminal ; The missing ; To the dead owner of a gym ; Still life ; In time of plague / Thom Gunn -- Nights of 1965: the old reliable / Marilyn Hacker -- The lenten tunnel / Rachel Hadas -- Red suspenders, boxes of cigars / Joseph Hansen -- The dolphins / Richard Harteis -- The enticing lane / Christopher Hewitt -- Begging the question ; Unhappy returns / Daryl Hine -- And who will look upon our testimony / Edward Hirsch -- Patrarch / Walter Holland -- Hospice / Lynda Hull -- The foreign element / Greg Johnson -- Poem for Buddy / June Jordan -- At a queen's funeral / Arnie Kantrowitz -- For Jed / X.J. Kennedy -- Positive ; Whole lives missing ; Naming the elements / Michael Klein -- The answer is in the garden ; Doctor type / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Josephine's garden / Steve Kowit -- How to watch your brother die / Michael Lassell -- What the intern saw / Phillis Levin -- Syndrome / Robert Louthan -- The brothers grief / Paul Mariah -- Summer at the Jardin d'Hiver / Richard McCann
- The landing ; Fog / J.D. McClatchy -- What hell is ; By faith not sight ; Third person neuter / Heather McHugh -- Two poems for David Kalstone / James Merrill -- Your sightless days ; Buckley ; Waiting to die ; Ed dying ; 40 ; To GB from Tuscany / Paul Monette -- Memoir / Honor Moore -- The eulogy ; Applause / Carol Muske -- At last / Eileen Myles -- For David / Frankie Paino -- Commands of love / Molly Peacock -- Three men speak to me ; After the funerals ; An artist's life / Felice Picano -- Pityriasis Rosea / Stanley Plumly -- I have told you your hands are salt / James Purdy
- This morning's lecture is of ionized / J.M. Regen -- In memoriam / Adrienne Rich -- Nerves / Mark Rudman -- The second law / Stephen Sandy -- Recovery ; The hardest ; The birds of sorrow ; The valley of death ; Your life ; Still alive / Ron Schreiber -- White balloon / Maureen Seaton -- Beauty kills / Charlie Smith -- Journey to the interior / William Jay Smith -- Mama Rosanna's last bead-clack / Laurel Speer -- To Joseph / Elizabeth Sullam -- Driving back from New Haven / David Trinidad -- X ; Willi, home ; Still life: in the epidemic / Jean Valentine -- AIDS-related complex / Chester Weinerman -- Thinking about Bill, dead of AIDS / Miller Williams