Policing, Politicizing, Poeticizing the Virgin/Whore Split: Contemporary American Women's Poetry about AIDS

Abstract

This article looks at four women poets: Lesléa Newman, Marie Howe, Tory Dent and River Huston and the impact their work has had on the literary, poetic construction of HIV/AIDS. Implicit in their poetry and their activism is a constant wrestling with their own subject position in relationship to HIV/AIDS.