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Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog

by Paul Monette · 1988 · 65 pages

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An eighteen-poem cycle on the death of his lover from AIDS emphasizes the power of love and its survival through pain and anger, and the tragedy and magnitude of a terrifying twist of fate and its effect on a generation.

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Genre
LGBT
Themes
LGBT
Audience
adult
Length
short · 65 pages
Form
poetry

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