Things Shaped in Passing
Subtitle: More "Poets for Life" Writing from the AIDS Pandemic
Contributors: Michael Klein (Editor); Richard J. McCann (Editor)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780892552177
Subjects: Literature: Texts; American poetry; Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome); American Contemporary Poetry; English; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; USA; Anthologies (multiple authors); American - General; AIDS (Disease); 20th century; Patients; Poetry
Description: This important and passionate collection presents the work of forty-two American poets whose vision and language bear the impress of the AIDS pandemic, now almost in its third decade. It complements Poets for Life (Persea), the classic anthology of poetry on AIDS, and is also an update, presenting a poetry different from what has gone before, in which the elegist leaves the bedside to look at the whole fractured world, the world as it is, with AIDS in it.

With its generous selections of the poets' works, as well as their brief personal remarks on the relationship of their poetry to their experiences of AIDS, Things Shaped in Passing bears witness to the extremity of our moment.