Wojnarowicz, David – Cross Country: Tape Journals February - June 1989 3xLP (2018)
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David Wojnarowicz.
Cross Country: Tape Journals February - June 1989 3xLP.
New York: Reading Group, 2018.
Three Vinyl LPs in triple gatefold jacket.
First edition of 200.
Very good.
Vinyl record has a couple light surface marks that do not affect play.
Gatefold jacket has minor wear.
Short essay by publisher Derek Baron. "Postcards From America" excerpt from Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration, 1991. Featuring photos of Wojnarowicz by Marion Scemama.
Scarce three LP vinyl set introducing David Wojnarowicz's tape journals to a public wider than visitors to New York University's Fales Library.
"David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was a writer and artist active in New York's Downtown scene in the 1970's and 80's. In the 1980's Wojnarowicz become one of the central figures in the AIDS struggle, as well as the target of homophobic censorship efforts by the American Family Association. Wojnarowicz kept written and cassette tape journals throughout his adult life. This three-disc vinyl release publishes for the first time three of Wojnarowicz's tape journals, documenting his thoughts, dreams, fears, and environment during two separate road trips he took to the American Southwest and West Coast in the first half of 1989. The original cassettes are archived as part of the Wojnarowicz Collection at Fales Special Collections and Library at New York University. Wojnarowicz died in New York in 1992."