Tory Dent (1858-2005). Courtesy Sheep Meadow Press.
Victorine Dent (January 1, 1958 - December 30, 2005) was an American poet, art critic, and commentator on the AIDS crisis.[1][2]
Life[]
Dent was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from Barnard College in 1981. She was diagnosed with HIV when she was 30 years old. Dent spent most of her adult life in New York City and Maine. She married writer Sean Harvey in 1999. Throughout her adult life she produced poetry, often about her struggles and experiences living with HIV.
Dent was the author of Black Milk (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005); HIV, Mon Amour (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999), and What Silence Equals (Persea Books, 1993). Her poetry appeared in periodicals such as Agni, Antioch Review, Kalliope, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Pequod, Ploughshares,[3] Fence. Dent also wrote art criticism for magazines including Arts, Flash Art, and Parachute, as well as catalog essays for art exhibitions.
She died in her apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan of the AIDS-associated infection PML.
Recognition[]
Dent's 1999 collection, HIV, Mon Amour, won the 1999 James Laughlin Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award . Other honors she has won include grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund; The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award; and three PEN American Center Grants for Writers with AIDS.[4]
Publications[]
- "What Silence Equals". New York: Persea Books 1993 ISBN 0-89255-196-8
- "HIV, Mon Amour". Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 1999 ISBN 1-878818-81-3
- Black Milk: Poems. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 2005 ISBN 1-931357-26-9
- Selected Poems, 1993-2005. Rhinebeck, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 2015.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Tory Dent's Poetry on Life with AIDS : NPR
- ↑ Tory Dent, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets. Web, Sep. 16, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=377
- ↑ "Tory Dent," Cortland Review, Fall 2002, CortlandReview.com, Web, Jan. 6, 2012.
- ↑ Search results = au:Tory Dent, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 16, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Tory Dent profile and 3 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Audio / video
- About
- Tory Dent at Sheep Meadow Press
- Tory Dent in the Cortland Review.
- "Tory Dent, Poet Who Wrote of Living With H.I.V., Dies at 47" (NY Times/ January 3, 2006)
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