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Aid and Comfort

University Press of Florida, 15 Northwest 15th St., Gainesville, FL 32611. 55p. (University of Central Florida Contemporary Poetry Series) ISBN 0-8130-1187-6, 0-8130-1188-4pbk. $16.95, $10.95pbk.
Poems by Greg Johnson. 1993.


This small book contains 37 poems by an award-winning poet. Johnson's purpose in the poems was to help give compassion, truth, and a language of survival. The poems cover a wide variety of personal topics that touch on many people's lives: AIDS, aging, suicide, psychological aberration, and violence. His poetry is soothing to read with the words flowing across your tongue and through your mind like clear water. Although the acronym AIDS is never mentioned, it is there in several of the poems, making them all the more meaninful, especially in "Safe Sex", "Disease Without a Name", and "The Gay Nineties." This is a must-read/must-own book for anyone who seeks solice in reading poetry. (H. Robert Malinowsky)
Keywords: Comfort, AIDS in Poetry

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