From its modest beginnings as a handful of fabric panels, the Quilt--a celebration and loving memorial to those who have died of AIDS--has become an immense community arts project, representing 11 countries, covering eight football fields, and touching thousands throughout the world. This book collects letters submitted to the NAMES Project with each panel. Delayed from November 1991.
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Hundreds of brief letters, most written by people who contributed panels to the huge NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, help humanize the disease by showing how family and friends remember the diverse victims and cope with their losses. Edited by a reporter for the Washington Post , the letters range from mundane to powerful and express a variety of emotions: tenderness, anger, sadness and hope. Some letters surprise, such as a tribute to the "horrible" gay-baiter Roy Cohn and a military man's remembrance of his straight-arrow Army lover. Some sear, such as a mother's lament that "I was taught how to live and how to die with dignity by my son. My only son." The book also includes instructions on how to create a panel and reproduces messages from the Signature Square, a blank piece of the quilt where visitors can inscribe their reactions. A worthy adjunct to our understanding of AIDS, this book should not be taken as a substitute for viewing the colorful, multitudinous and moving quilt itself, which is on display nationally and internationally. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This review is from: A Promise to Remember: The Names Project Book of Letters (Paperback)
This book contains dozens of messages and essays, some ofwhich were written by persons who knew they would soon be remembered via the Quilt, so their stories seem especially poignant, but it is good that they recorded their feelings and thoughts for posterity. Other stories are by friends, lovers, parents, etc. One of the longer stories is "My Own Little Message" which I wrote some years back. -John Morse Albany NY March 2005
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