Black Milk

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Tory Dent's second book establishes her as a necessary, unparalleled voice in American writing. She takes the Whitmanian line, soars and plummets with it to the heights and depths of extremity. Speaking from the interior of a consciousness immutably transformed by AIDS, our millennial plague, she enunciates and elucidates all human despair, in a language elegant and extravagant enough to become, in itself, a kind of redemption." - Marilyn Hacker "In HIV, Mon Amour, one thinks of the long line as a near classical conceit, a life-line rethered to in-depth meaning and breathless pursuit. This collection is a whirlpool of energy that seems to be reaching for cinematic clarity, driven by a need to confront modern psychology and ontology until there's a focus of certainty. Here's a map where ideas and experiences collide, and what rises out of the landscape underneath is a poetry that is painful and truthful, beautiful and terrifying, lyrical and narrative, always engaging the intellect and body politic. HIV, Mon Amour seems relentless, a long-breath engine that propels the urgency of this spell-binding collection of poems at the end of our millennium. The voice here is not stingy, it is a full-throated singing that demands a passionate response because it has compassion for the reader. This book is brave, and a bold sophistication is in the heartbeat of the truthtelling." - Yusef Komunyakaa "... There has never been a poetry quite like this before, so passionately and understandably barbaric... And, withal, stormily beautiful, at the border where beauty tolerates the sublime." - Calvin Bedient, "These AIDS Days, " Parnassus