Even before learning of his positive HIV status, Robbert Fortin was writing about death. Without trying to make his disease the object of his writing, his art became a way for him to leave a trace – a vibrant trace – of the “I” left with a body that became foreign because it was carrying death within him. In studying his three collections that form the “Trilogy of America and Elsewhere”, a work already comprising eight publications of poetry, we will follow this traveling through confrontation then acceptance of death, followed by his rebirth by poetic and picturesque writing. Having accomplished this, we will show how this voyage is founded on the refusal to detach himself from his threatened body, and how it permits the “I” to be reborn, to continue to exist embodied with nature.