Clay (David Groff)

"The fluid musical surfaces that provide lyric intensity belie the grief at the heart of these elegies.  The one and the many who have suffered HIV/AIDS are remembered, the lover named Clay​  and the hosts (in all senses) made from clay, those who have perished and those who remain alive in this new century where the disease has gone discreet.​  Other losses also register here, acknowledging anyone who has been blasted open with tears.​  David Groff has shaped sorry into poems of exquisitely textured cadences, wrenching and memorable."
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— Michael Waters, Louise Bogan Award Judge​