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NEW YORK, Jan 3, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Award-winning poet Tory Dent, who wrote about her life with HIV, has died in New York at age 47.
Dent's husband, Sean Harvey, said she died at their home Friday from an infection associated with AIDS, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Dent was diagnosed HIV-positive at age 30 and the virus had progressed to AIDS about nine years ago, the Times said.
She published three volumes of poetry: "What Silence Equals" (Persea Books) in 1993, followed by "HIV, Mon Amour" (Sheep Meadow Press) in 2000 and her third, "Black Milk" (Sheep Meadow), just weeks before her death.
"HIV, Mon Amour" won several awards, including the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. The title of "What Silence Equals" was adapted from a slogan of the AIDS activist group Act-Up, the Times noted.
Besides her husband, Dent is survived by a brother and a sister.
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