Poets for life : seventy-six poets respond to AIDS / edited with an introduction by Michael Klein ; essays by Paul Moore, Jr., Joseph Papp, and Carol Muske.

Other author Klein, Michael, 1954 August 17-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Crown Publishers, ©1989.
Descriptionxii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
AIDS (Disease)--Patients. --Poetry.
American poetry--20th century.

Contents 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.
Contents 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.
Contents 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.
Contents 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.
Abstract An anthology of poems that focuses on the deep emotions felt by those affected by AIDS.
Local noteIncludes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection 142.13. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Other formsAlso issued online.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011
Awards noteLambda Literary Award, 1989
Issued in other formOnline version: Poets for life. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, ©1989
Genre/formPoetry.
Genre/formBelletristische Darstellung.
Genre/formPoetry.
LCCN 88035219
ISBN0517572427
ISBN9780517572429

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Joyner Stuart Wright Collection PS595.A36 P64 1989 ✔ Available Request Material