Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog
Monette, best known for his light novels and movie novelizations, is also a gifted poet who has published intermittently since 1971. His third book of poems is occasioned by the death of his lover, Roger Horwitz, of AIDS in 1986. Written "for those who are mad with loss," it stands apart from its predecessors, and indeed from most contemporary poetry, in both intent and execution. The poems use remembered episodes to celebrate "that two men ceased to be single," but more often ride express the rage felt during Rog's dying and the ache of being the remaining half of a couple. Though I do not share his worship of The Gay Couple, and in fact find it irritating, this book will be a balm for those who see AIDS primarily as a deadly assault on an already besieged army of lovers. Rob Schmeider, BostonCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.