Salon.com > Steve Abbott http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Steve Abbott http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/abbott/ http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/abbott/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2000 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/abbott Steve Abbott was a leading figure of the 1980s San Francisco literary scene, an acclaimed poet, novelist and critic who taught writing at the University of San Francisco and the Naropa Institute. Abbott edited Poetry Flash magazine, and his work influenced countless writers including Kathy Acker and Alice Notley.

Since his death of AIDS in 1992, Abbott's daughter Alysia has kept his work alive through public readings and the excellent website www.steveabbott.org, a chronicle of his life and work.

In these MP3Lit.com exclusive recordings, Alysia Abbott performs her father's poems "Elegy" and "A Moveable Feast."

On Steve Abbott: "Sex and horror always get me going... Abbott's got lots of it... plus intelligence... most important, his fine sensitivity toward how things are in this world." -Kathy Acker

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