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Title	Writing and AIDS
Performer(s)	Abbott, Steve.
Subject 1	AIDS (Disease) in literature.
Subject 2	Death in literature.
Abstract	Steve Abbott talks about living with AIDS and how death and illness inform his life and writing. He provides a bibliography of books about death and AIDS and reads and discusses writing related to illness and death, including his own untitled poem written in response to the sentencing of Dan White, who murdered gay leader Harvey Milk. He engages the class in writing exercises about death and life.
Content	0:30ish -- Introduction of himself, and his experience with AIDS 2:10ish -- a Bibliography of books about death, what do we do when we die; Americans' & his own experiences of death & near-death illness, & how that informs life & writing; Leviticus; William Burroughs' Cities of the Red Night; Dafoe & Camus; Duras' The War; Ginsberg's "White Shroud" Judy Grahn's "A Woman Talking to Death"; Iliad & Odyssey; Pierre Kluasky (?); Shelley & Tennyson; magazines & anthologies; his own writing about AIDS & death; the removal of birth & death from the home in US culture 16:10 -- reading of his poem re killing of Harvey Milk & S.F. mayor -- Dan White was killer; MLK & Malcolm X & threat of death if you speak out; Jonestown; riot after White's sentencing -- written afterwards & discussion of poem, & questions on that & issues already raised 35:10 -- his writing of the poem & the experiences that fed into it; grieving & mourning -- the losing control of it -- & re: AIDS; more on the sex & death visibility & lack of in our culture that was brought up early, other cultures' treatments of death 43:10ish -- Trungpa's training in death as a child; death (thoughts of) & practice. Asian death ceremonies; Native American perspectives. 45:30 -- William Carlos William's poem on teaching people how to have a funeral; sex in Bali; 47:30 -- Questions/ discussion on sex/death taboos continue after side change 48:20 -- Tom Gunn poem -- Gunn writing in rhyme, effect on reader in illness/death poems 57:00 -- David Warner Rulewich(?)'s prose poem "Memoir of Disintegration" style, the power of small objects in writing 66:40 -- moving into writing exercises about life, death, etc.; reading them aloud
Type of Event	reading
Engineer's Notes	A mono tape! Not converted to stereo.
Date Recorded	1991-07-21
File Format	mp3
Performance Length	1:23:33
Rights Information	Copyright release given to Naropa University for the purposes of preservation, marketing and educational use. All other rights reserved to individual performers.
Department	Writing
Original Format	audio cassette
Publisher	Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type	Sound
Language	eng
File Name	91P122.mp3

Writing and AIDS

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