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Tory Dent's Poetry on Life with AIDS

Tory Dent wrote poetry about the experience of living with AIDS, most famously in her collection HIV, Mon Amour. She was 47 when she died Friday. She had been HIV-positive for 17 years.

Poet Adrienne Rich remembers her friend's life and work.

Read sections of from Dent's the title poem of her recently released collection, Black Milk:

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Michele Norris
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