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Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues
Julene Tripp Weaver
What readers are saying about Case Walking:
"This is necessary art, your book hits over the head like a hammer,
it doesn't stop page after page."
-- Eric Alugas, artist
"I've read it again and again, in bed, on floor, on toilet, on bus.
Awed both by the writing and by the huge mountain of lived experience
that the book rises up from like a mountain peak. So many haunting
word-images. The bottle of salad dressing, address book full of
crossed-out names. No idea quite why the lines that most knock me
over are-"before his decline, rain was never quite so hard." Chekhov
wrote-"Any idiot can face a crisis-it's day to day living that wears
you out." What you have charted is what happens when two become one,
when day-to-day is unrelenting crisis. I don't know how you've done
it, the writing and the living. I couldn't. So what I want to say
mostly is-Congratulations!!! I hope you are pleased in every cell
with your book, and love holding it in your hands. Small as it is, it
weighs so much of life and pain and hope-art too! I can feel the
wealth of poems that wrap around it, that didn't make their way in."
-- Andrew Ramer author of Two Flutes Playing
"They're all so hard-fought, and I can't get over some of the
personalities in them. Here in NYC, it's easy to meet people (the
dean of the department I teach in) who saw most of their friends die
from AIDS in the 80s when it was both rampant and surprising. I can't
imagine what these people, what you go through. Your poems help."
-- Tom Hart, Cartoonist and creator of Owen Hutch
Sample poem:
tinyurl.com/6j9wv3
Special Order
His last wish was a bottle of salad dressing that cost
thirty-two dollars.
Thought I'd have to special order it,
would have taken too long.
Lucky I found one store in Seattle that carries it.
What would I want before I die?
A large strawberry milkshake would be perfect.
I'll change my mind come next week.
These new drugs may save my life
I may not need your services anymore.
Yes, keep living
go away
let this insanity end.
In the meantime, it's a good idea to
do your power of attorney,
make your will, have a living will ready, just in case.
And, you might think about
what it is you want to eat before you die,
so if it needs to be special ordered
there will be enough time.
Reviews for Case Walking:
Georgia Banks-Martin for Her Circle Ezine: tinyurl.com/6dsbse
Jen Garfield, Editor for Prick of the Spindle
tinyurl.com/5ff2jc
Raves for Case Walking (back cover):
"There is much to behold and admire, much to be moved by, in these
passionate and engaged poems that-individually and collectively-
comprise a report from the front in the valiant war against AIDS, a
report by a poet with an unflinching heart and all-seeing eye."
-- Roy Jacobstein, M.D., M.P.H., author of A Form of Optimism,
winner of the 2006 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize.
"Julene Tripp Weaver's Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her
Blues exposes the underbelly of Social Services and those human
beings on the front lines trying to help people cope with AIDS,
addiction, and poverty. The poems are well crafted, close to the
heart, and often heartbreaking. Thank God for people like Julene
Weaver who carry on the good fight."
-- Tom Spanbauer author of Now is the Hour
"The authenticity of Julene Tripp Weaver's experience as an AIDS case
manager-and her commitment to doing what she can-form the resolute
backbone of this collection. She acknowledges all that is outside her
power to heal or hold, and so asks the necessary question: what can
we offer each other at the too-soon end of life?
-- Elizabeth Austen author of skin prayers
About the author:
ISBN: 978-1-59924-166-1, 30 pages, $14.00
Finishing Line Press - paperback
[glow=teal,2,300]BUY HERE, BUY NOW:[/glow]
Finishing Line Press: www.finishinglinepress.com/
Amazon: tinyurl.com/59oqfl
Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues
Julene Tripp Weaver
What readers are saying about Case Walking:
"This is necessary art, your book hits over the head like a hammer,
it doesn't stop page after page."
-- Eric Alugas, artist
"I've read it again and again, in bed, on floor, on toilet, on bus.
Awed both by the writing and by the huge mountain of lived experience
that the book rises up from like a mountain peak. So many haunting
word-images. The bottle of salad dressing, address book full of
crossed-out names. No idea quite why the lines that most knock me
over are-"before his decline, rain was never quite so hard." Chekhov
wrote-"Any idiot can face a crisis-it's day to day living that wears
you out." What you have charted is what happens when two become one,
when day-to-day is unrelenting crisis. I don't know how you've done
it, the writing and the living. I couldn't. So what I want to say
mostly is-Congratulations!!! I hope you are pleased in every cell
with your book, and love holding it in your hands. Small as it is, it
weighs so much of life and pain and hope-art too! I can feel the
wealth of poems that wrap around it, that didn't make their way in."
-- Andrew Ramer author of Two Flutes Playing
"They're all so hard-fought, and I can't get over some of the
personalities in them. Here in NYC, it's easy to meet people (the
dean of the department I teach in) who saw most of their friends die
from AIDS in the 80s when it was both rampant and surprising. I can't
imagine what these people, what you go through. Your poems help."
-- Tom Hart, Cartoonist and creator of Owen Hutch
Sample poem:
tinyurl.com/6j9wv3
Special Order
His last wish was a bottle of salad dressing that cost
thirty-two dollars.
Thought I'd have to special order it,
would have taken too long.
Lucky I found one store in Seattle that carries it.
What would I want before I die?
A large strawberry milkshake would be perfect.
I'll change my mind come next week.
These new drugs may save my life
I may not need your services anymore.
Yes, keep living
go away
let this insanity end.
In the meantime, it's a good idea to
do your power of attorney,
make your will, have a living will ready, just in case.
And, you might think about
what it is you want to eat before you die,
so if it needs to be special ordered
there will be enough time.
Reviews for Case Walking:
Georgia Banks-Martin for Her Circle Ezine: tinyurl.com/6dsbse
Jen Garfield, Editor for Prick of the Spindle
tinyurl.com/5ff2jc
Raves for Case Walking (back cover):
"There is much to behold and admire, much to be moved by, in these
passionate and engaged poems that-individually and collectively-
comprise a report from the front in the valiant war against AIDS, a
report by a poet with an unflinching heart and all-seeing eye."
-- Roy Jacobstein, M.D., M.P.H., author of A Form of Optimism,
winner of the 2006 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize.
"Julene Tripp Weaver's Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her
Blues exposes the underbelly of Social Services and those human
beings on the front lines trying to help people cope with AIDS,
addiction, and poverty. The poems are well crafted, close to the
heart, and often heartbreaking. Thank God for people like Julene
Weaver who carry on the good fight."
-- Tom Spanbauer author of Now is the Hour
"The authenticity of Julene Tripp Weaver's experience as an AIDS case
manager-and her commitment to doing what she can-form the resolute
backbone of this collection. She acknowledges all that is outside her
power to heal or hold, and so asks the necessary question: what can
we offer each other at the too-soon end of life?
-- Elizabeth Austen author of skin prayers
About the author:
Julene Tripp Weaver has a bachelor degree in Creative Writing from the City University of New York where she studied with Audre Lorde. Since 1988 she has practiced Continuum Movement. She moved to Seattle in 1989, earned her Masters in counseling, and has worked in HIV/AIDS Services ever since. She created a CD using her breath, words and wails as background for her performance piece, "The Wailing Wall." Her Muse To Write Circles integrate movement and breath to evoke body-centered writing. Julene's poems have appeared in numerous journals and several anthologies including Off the Coast, Main Street Rag, The Healing Muse, Knock, Arabesques Review, Nerve Cowboy, Arnazella, Crab Creek Review, Under a Silver Sky, An Anthology of Pacific Northwest Poetry, Tattoos on Cedar: Member's Anthology of the Washington Poets Association, and Wompo's own Letters to the World.
Website: www.drizzle.com/~newroots
Email address: newroots@drizzle.com
ISBN: 978-1-59924-166-1, 30 pages, $14.00
Finishing Line Press - paperback
[glow=teal,2,300]BUY HERE, BUY NOW:[/glow]
Finishing Line Press: www.finishinglinepress.com/
Amazon: tinyurl.com/59oqfl