Fibroid tumors are the leading reason why more than 500,000 American women have hysterectomies each year.

Love is always complicated. In the poems of Drug and Disease Free, Michael Broder ponders the further complexities of love in the context of HIV and AIDS. These include the pleasures of cruising and anonymous sex, the challenges of marriage and erotic power exchange, and the realities of blood, cum and other "proud, shameful mysteries." Broder's narrator is intimate and plainspoken even when formalist; wary but romantic; self-mocking and elegiac; and utterly open--even with "no lube"--to loving and being loved, and all the complications those entail.

--Arielle Greenberg

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