Seventy-six of the best poets writing today - gay and straight, male and female, black and white - respond to AIDS in all its manifestations, with anger, grief, and transcendence.They David Craig Austin, Wendy Barker, Robin Behn, Marvin Bell, David Bergman, Michael Blumenthal, Phillip Booth, Walta Borawski, Olga Broumas, Michael Burkard, Michael Cadnum, Kevin Jeffery Clarke, Henri Cole, Robert Cording, Alfred Corn, Robert Creeley, William Dickey, Deborah Digges, Melvin Dixon, Tim Dlugos, Mark Doty, Carol Ebbecke, Eve Ensler, Edward Field, Gary Fincke, Allen Ginsberg, Brad Gooch, David Groff, Thom Gunn, Marilyn Hacker, Rachel Hadas, Joseph Hansen, Richard Harteis, Christopher Hewitt, Daryl Hine, Edward Hirsch, Walter Holland, Lynda Hull, Greg Johnson, June Jordan, Arnie Kantrowitz, X.J. Kennedy, Michael Klein, Wayne Koestenbaum, Steve Kowit, Michael Lassell, Phillis Levin, Robert Louthan, Paul Mariah, Richard McCann, J.D. McClatchy, Heather McHugh, James Merrill, Paul Monette, Honor Moore, Carol Muske, Eileen Myles, Frankie Paino, Molly Peacock, Felice Picano, Stanley Plumly, James Purdy, J.M. Regan, Adrienne Rich, Mark Rudman, Stephen Sandy, Ron Schreiber, Maureen Seaton, Charlie Smith, William Jay Smith, Laurel Speer, Elizabeth Sullam, David Trinidad, Jean Valentine, Chester Wienerman, and Miller Williams.