Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 142 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. Marked by maturity and poetic vision, this collection of poetry if devoted to the margins of life in the generation after the devastating first wave of the AIDS epidemic. This collection explores the meanings and boundaries of illness, travel, contagion, home, identify, tainted purity, and the bits of life that contain and hold them together in spite of the harsh exigency of daily existence. -- From back cover.

Subject

1. Poetry
2. Gay men > Poetry
3. Asian Americans > Poetry
4. HIV-positive men > Poetry
5. Asian American men > Poetry
6. Asian American gays > Poetry

Genre/Form

1. Poetry

Contents

1. Undetectable -- Apocryphal Medicine -- Surrealist Bookmark -- Poison -- Faith -- I Buy Sea Monkeys -- Final -- Contents Page to the Book of Poems I Have Yet to Write -- The National Museum of Health and Science -- Mirage -- Magnified -- Lesson 1.0 -- Nipa, Encephalitis -- (Animal) Species I Have Eaten -- Grave -- Harmless Medicine -- O Sweet Cookie -- Pride Pissed -- Last Worry -- Poem for Somebody -- Wound -- Neo Testament -- Beefy Fag -- Oriental Suture -- Imagining America -- The Real World -- The Men's Restroom at the INS Building -- Smell -- Mistranslations -- No Won-Tons for Whitey -- Eros in Boystown -- Homomonument -- Little Everest In Your Palm -- My Weakness -- False God Killed -- What Found -- Dog Day -- Casted -- Real Monster Movie -- The Night -- Sleepless -- Single -- What Happened -- Milestone -- Chinese Gastrointestinal Tract Turns 30 -- Giant Non-Poisonous Snake -- Deck -- Puppy -- Deal.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain