Read Sean Singer’s essay on the intersection of poetry and the HIV/AIDs epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s, “Blood Positive: Recovering Poetry from the AIDS crisis:”
The Whitmanesque assemblages of city life pulse and thrum through the language of the poems, even as the inevitable burning-down of that life casts pathos on everyday objects. Poems from the AIDS crisis teach us that loss engages with memory: all losses trigger all previous losses. So, a poet’s private memory is a window into the public memory of the event: its grief, its mores, and its metaphors.
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