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"Approximately when does the human male reach [their] sexual prime? Research indicates around 18 years of age, at least physiologically. So for those born [say] in 1966, peaked in 1984 and 1984 was the year that Robert Gallo discovered the probable cause of AIDS [a retrovirus]. It would be eight [more] years before the first combination drug therapies for HIV/AIDS were introduced. What psychological and socio-sexual impacts did this essentially untreatable disease have for [not only] homosexual men of this generation, on their collective unconscious? The questioning speaker in this poem is a gay man from this pervasive afr-AIDS generation, a speaker who reflects back upon his own guilt. “[box]” is printed on seven transparencies, fragments that contribute to a more comprehensive narrative, yet as these transparent pages turn, the poem becomes an erasure, thus enacting the very nature of this disease."--Publisher's website (viewed 11/02/2016).

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