Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. Once day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink" (Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love ...
The Lambert Collection is one of the greatest collections of contemporary photographs in the world, made during a time in which photographic art has undergone fundamental changes in both its intentions and perceptions. This collection of essays by the foremost writers on international contemporary art accompanies full-page reproductions of 130 ...
In her 10th novel, Acker's heroine, Laurie, is a woman helpless before the fury of her emotions. Love-obsessed, Laurie is plunged into a harrowing dilemma--sexuality and her feminism are the two poles that threaten to obliterate her inner poise, the false magic of her woman's identity.
A loose reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, Acker's radical interpretation is a masterfully directed, wild trek through real and imagined history, from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria through an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be sometime in the future. "Acker pushes language to the tension ...
My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini imagines the Italian filmmaker and writer returning to the Roman homosexual hustlers he knew, in a "scathing commentary on false values in art" (The Hartford Courant).
In this extraordinary and unique novel, Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on an intractable quest to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America.
Designed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the "VLS", the literary supplement of the American periodical "Village Voice", this anthology features 25 short stories of contemporary American fiction. The collection aims to present new writers and illustrate current trends in American literature.
This is an anthology of short fiction and other writings by Acker, including "Politics", her debut work written at the age of 21, and "The Translations of the Diaries of Laure the Schoolgirl", plus "The Birth of a Poet", a play in three acts. It also features an interview with Acker.
Kathy Acker is widely considered one of the most important writers of the late 20th century. While her novels have become cult classics, establishing her influence on postmodernists, feminists, performers, punks and students of literature, her essays are available only in this comprehensive collection. "Bodies of Work" maps a wide-ranging cultural ...
In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a period when Acker was writing "Great Expectations and trying to leave America for London, Buck confronts issues of appropriation, sampling, and plagiarism, relevant then and ...
"The crucifixion of modern literature, the resurrection of the imagination". With this manifesto, Creation Books was launched. Here is a selection from its pages past, present and future, hallucinated or anatomical texts by writers estranged from the bind of linear narrative and "literary" values, and the establishment which seeks to perpetuate it.
An irreverent document of Artspace's 15-year commitment to exhibitions, publications, performances, videos and film, this book challenges the notion of what an organization for and about artists can be at the dawn of the 21st century. Supported by Artspace grants, the guerilla artists of Survival Research Laboratories terrorized San Fransisco with ...
A novel which draws on and solves both classic texts and Americana. For Rimbaud, it is the agony of love that confirms his identity, while his lover Verlaine is reluctant to sacrifice the facade of a bourgeois marriage for the relationship. By the author of "Blood and Guts in High School".
"If one day, a bad girl named Dante met a mean dyke called Hieronymous Bosch, this is the book they'd make."--Jenny Livingstone, director, Paris Burning."Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other" --The New York Times Book ReviewKathy Acker holds a unique place among American novelists, as a ...
Kathy Acker's essays cover a range of subjects, from body-building, through politics and science fiction, to the work of contemporary artists and philosophers. They offer insight into broader issues and figures, including Richard Prince, Kiki Smith, Nayland Blake, the Marquis de Sade, Peter Greenaway and Hannah Arendt.
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