Sheep Meadow Press

Tory Dent was born in Wilmington, DE and attended Barnard and NYU. Before her death of AIDS in 2005 she completed three books of poetry: What Silence Equals (Persea, 1993), HIV, Mon Amour (Sheep Meadow, 1999), which won the 1999 James Laughlin Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Black Milk (Sheep Meadow , 2005). Her honors include grants from 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.

From Sheep Meadow Press

Tory Dent has gone to a place where we are afraid to go, and come back with a vision, and she sings it . . . She is a true poet, a born truth-teller .. . [her] dazzling and valiant poems are the psalms of our present moment.

—Sharon Olds

There has never been a poetry quite like this before, so passionately and understandably barbaric . . . And, withal, stormily beautiful, at the border where beauty tolerates the sublime.