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Writing and AIDS
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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
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