When The Eye Forms

Rieves, Dwaine

ISBN 10: 1932195343 / ISBN 13: 9781932195347

Published by Tupelo Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When The Eye Forms
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1932195343
• ISBN 13: 9781932195347
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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Synopsis

A Tupelo Press First Book Award chosen by Carolyn Forché.

Mississippi babies and Louisiana mommas, New York poster boys, Washington politicians, deformed sons and estranged daughters, examined by an extraordinary poet-doctor. When the Eye Forms limns public health, gay themes, maternity, science, the South, Mississippi, Louisiana, Washington, America, and the Mississippi River.

About the Author

Dwaine Rieves practices public health medicine in Washington, DC. A Mississippi native, he graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1979 and completed his training in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University. In 1985, Rieves began working part-time in the Gay Men's VD Clinic of Whitman Walker Clinic in Washington, DC while also pursuing fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine at the National Institutes of Health and fellowship training in pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dwaine Rieves' poems have appeared in numerous journals, including: The Georgia Review, The Sycamore Review, Crazyhorse, River Styx, Chelsea, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, JAMA, and Lancet.