Truth Be Bold by Julene Tripp Weaver

$19.99

 

In truth be bold, Julene T. Weaver stands at night in the open air and sings beneath the window of HIV, odes and elegies to the virus in her body, in her work, her life, her deaths, deaths of friends, lovers, social work clients, of aging and loving and mourning with HIV, of going on, day by day, one life passage at a time. It is the kind of testament and testimony that could only come from a witness who has lived a long time with the virus in her and all around her, a coming out story unlike any we have seen before.

–Michael Broder, author of Drug and Disease Free and This Life Now

 

Historical and deeply emotional, the historian or journalist’s objectivity ripped away, this raw, honest poetry of Julene Tripp Weaver won’t leave you alone. It will slowly crawl under your skin and infect you, leaving its mind-tracks, like verbal scabies. It will caress your skin, and mark you, like KS lesions–because this is the poet’s work–to chart for the collective the hidden virus lurking in all of us: Death, and the myriad ways in which It takes us over.

–Andrew Ramer, Modern Jewish Stories and Torah Told Different: Stories for a Pan/Poly/Post-Denominational World and Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories

 

Julene Tripp Weaver‘s truth be bold is a powerful, readable, nearly impossible-to-put-down, boundary-crossing coming-out collection. Weaver writes authentically about difficult but important things. She’s a hawk for truth; her unflinching gaze guides us through a work of frustration, love, sadness, survival, death, and compassion. “Inside desire lies/the truth of blood–/longing to live a full life, a natural death.” If you only read one book of poetry this year, make it count–make it this one. –

–Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet

 

 

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Truth Be Bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS

by Julene Tripp Weaver

$19.99, paper, full-length

978-1-63534-182-9

2017

30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists in Bisexual Nonfiction
Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, Julene Tripp Weaver, Finishing Line Press.   https://www.lambdaliterary.org/lambda-literary-award-finalists/
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Julene Tripp Weaver is a Native New Yorker who moved to the northwest in 1989, and is currently a writer and psychotherapist in Seattle, Washington. Her two poetry books include her chapbook, Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues (Finishing Line Press, 2007), and No Father Can Save Her (Plainview Press, 2011), which has autobiographical poetry about family and women’s sexuality based on her experience growing up during the sexual revolution in New York City. Her undergraduate degree is in Creative Writing, her master degree in Counseling.

 

David Whyte’s book, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment, Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, helped Julene create an entry point to access her own vulnerability. In addressing vulnerability in his book David writes, “The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance, our choice is to inhabit vulnerability as generous citizens of loss, robustly and fully, or conversely, as misers and complainers, reluctant and fearful, always at the gates of existence, but never bravely and completely attempting to enter, never wanting to risk ourselves, never walking fully through the door.”

 

Julene Tripp Weaver worked over twenty years as an AIDS case manager, an Adherence Counselor and in AIDS education. In addition, she is an early founder of the Babes Network. Supporting the Babes Network early move to being a nonprofit she led the committee that came up with the slogan, A Sisterhood of Women Facing HIV Together, and served as their second Board President. She started the Health Corner Column in their newsletter where she wrote articles about health and healing using an herbal complementary approach, another one of her interests that she has studied widely.

 

In addition to poetry, Julene is writing a memoir and one of her creative nonfiction pieces is in the recent, In The Words of Women International 2016 Anthology published by Yellow Chair Press. In pursuit of this, she has studied fiction writing with Tom Spanbauer, who trademarked “Dangerous Writing.”

 

Julene Tripp Weaver’s poetry is widely published in many print and online journals including: Anti-Heroin Chic, Riverbabble, River & South Review, Cliterature, Menacing Hedge, Red Headed Stepchild Magazine, Snow Monkey, Nerve Cowboy, The Far Field, The Seattle Review of Books, The Unprecedented Review & HIV Here & Now. Julene’s poetry has also been chosen for many anthologies including: Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS, The Poeming Pigeon Poems on Music, and in Ice Cream, and Bang!

 

Follow her on Twitter @trippweavepoet, on SoundCloud, and check out her website: www.julenetrippweaver.com

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