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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