Background
Tory Dent was born as Victorine Dent on January 1, 1958, in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.
Tory Dent
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Barnard College where Tory Dent received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
New York University, New York, NY 10013, United States
New York University where Tory Dent received her Master of Fine Arts degree.
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
Barnard College where Tory Dent received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
New York University, New York, NY 10013, United States
New York University where Tory Dent received her Master of Fine Arts degree.
(This virtuosic collection defined writing about AIDS for ...)
This virtuosic collection defined writing about AIDS for a generation of poets. Chaotic and incantatory, it is a submersion into the railing consciousness of a young woman on the precipice of mortality.
https://www.amazon.com/What-Silence-Equals-Tory-Dent/dp/0892551968
1993
(Tory Dent's is a voice like no other. Her use of language...)
Tory Dent's is a voice like no other. Her use of language is virtuosic, complex, and plangent. These are daring poems that also dare the reader. HIV positive, Dent writes out of her own experience and profound refusal to look away or suspend feeling or turn from love.
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1999
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2005
Tory Dent was born as Victorine Dent on January 1, 1958, in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.
Tory Dent attended Barnard College where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981. Then she obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University.
Tory Dent began her career writing essays and criticism for art journals including Arts, Flash Art, and Parachute, as well as catalog commentaries for art exhibitions. Throughout her life, she produced poetry most of all. Given an HIV diagnosis at the age of 30, in her writings, Dent explored the brutal realities and emotional complexities of living with the fatal illness.
Her poetry appeared in periodicals such as AGNI, Antioch Review, Kalliope, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Pequod, Ploughshares, and Fence. She also contributed poetry to anthologies, including Life Sentences (1994), In the Company of My Solitude (1995), and Things Shaped in Passing (1997).
Dent published two books of poetry, What Silence Equals (1993) and HIV, Mon Amour: Poems (1999). The title of What Silence Equals is taken from a slogan introduced by the AIDS activist group Act Up meaning silence about the epidemic could equal death. In the volume, Dent expresses her anger and fear of learning she has the disease. She describes exactly and precisely what it is like to be in her skin, in her head. In HIV, Mon Amour, Dent continues to write about her struggle with HIV. One more volume of her poetry, Black Milk, appeared in 2005, just weeks before her death.
Tory Dent is remembered as a gifted poet who is considered to be one of the best poets of the United States. In addition to her poetry, she was also known as an essayist and art critic and received a number of awards and fellowships.
She was awarded three International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists (PEN) grants for writers with AIDS, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant, and New York Foundation for the Arts grant.
She was the recipient of the 1999 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award. She was the finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2001, she was Witter Bynner Fellow in Poetry. Her honors also include fellowships at MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo.
(This virtuosic collection defined writing about AIDS for ...)
1993(Tory Dent's is a voice like no other. Her use of language...)
1999Physical Characteristics: Tory Dent was diagnosed with HIV when she was 30 years old. The cause of her death was the AIDS-associated infection PML.
Tory Dent married Sean Harvey in 1999.
