Kathy Acker
Born:	18 April 1947 Manhattan, New York, United States
Died:	30 November 1997 Tijuana, Mexico
Occupation:	novelist, playwright, essayist, poet

Kathy Acker (18 April 1947 in Manhattan—30 November 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico) was an experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, poète maudit and sex-positive feminist writer. April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... NY redirects here. ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days remaining. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tijuana (Spanish [tixwana], English usually [ËŒtiːəˈwÉ‘nÉ™]), is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and the seat of the municipality of Tijuana of which the current municipal president is Jorge Hank Rhon of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days remaining. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tijuana (Spanish [tixwana], English usually [ËŒtiːəˈwÉ‘nÉ™]), is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and the seat of the municipality of Tijuana of which the current municipal president is Jorge Hank Rhon of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... A poète maudit (French: accursed poet) is a poet living a life outside or against society. ... ...

Overview

Acker's first work appeared in print as part of the burgeoning New York literary underground of the mid-1970s and her first writings were profoundly influenced by her experiences working for a few months as a stripper. She remained on the margins of the literary establishment, only being published by small presses until the mid-1980s, thus earning herself the epithet of literary terrorist. 1984 saw her first British publication, a novel called Blood and Guts in High School. From here on Acker produced a considerable body of novels, almost all still in print with Grove Press. She wrote pieces for a number of magazines and anthologies, and also had notable pieces printed in issues of RE/Search, Angel Exhaust and Rapid Eye. Towards the end of her life she had a measure of success in the conventional press--the Guardian newspaper published several of her articles, including an interview with the Spice Girls, which she submitted just a few months before her death. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... A striptease dancer performing. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1951. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... ANThology is the first major label album by Alien Ant Farm. ... RE/Search Publications is a United States magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco, founded and edited by V. Vale in 1980. ... Angel Exhaust 16 Angel Exhaust is a British poetry magazine founded by Steve Pereira and Adrian Clarke. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... The Spice Girls were an English all-female pop group. ...

Acker's formative influences were American poets and writers (the Black Mountain poets, especially Jackson Mac Low, William S. Burroughs), and the Fluxus movement, as well as literary theory, especially the French feminists andGilles Deleuze. In her work, she combined plagiarism, cut-up techniques, pornography, autobiography, persona and personal essay to confound expectations of what fiction should be. She acknowledged the performative function of language in drawing attention to the instability of female identity in male narrative and literary history (Don Quixote), created parallelism in characters and autobiographical personas and experimented with pronouns, upsetting conventional syntax. |The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. ... This is a list of novelists from the United States. ... The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called the Projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered around Black Mountain College. ... Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 - December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of... William Seward Burroughs II (1914 – August 2, 1997), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs, was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... Fluxus (from to flow) is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. ... Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism. ... Gilles Deleuze (IPA: ), (January 18, 1925 – November 4, 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. ... Plagiarism is the the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as ones own original work. ... The cut-up technique is a literary form or method in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. ... Pornographic movies Pornography (Porn) (from Greek πόρνη (porne) prostitute and γραφή (grafe) writing), more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ... It has been suggested that Semi-autobiographical novel be merged into this article or section. ... A persona is a social role, or a character played by an actor. ... The Performative is the part of speech representing the information conveyed by the fact that a speaker chose to say a particular sentence. ... Parallelism may refer to: Parallelism (philosophy) - in the philosophy of mind a theistic, dualist solution to the mind-body problem Parallelism in computing Parallelism in grammar or in rhetoric This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

In In Memoriam to Identity, Acker draws attention to popular analyses of Rimbaud's life and The Sound and the Fury, constructing or revealing social and literary identity. Though she was known in the literary world for creating a whole new style of feminist prose and for her transgressive fiction, she was also a punk and feminist icon for her devoted portrayals of subcultures, strong-willed women, and violence. Rimbaud can refer to: Arthur Rimbaud, 19th century poet and literary figure Penny Rimbaud, founder and drummer of the anarchist punk rock band Crass This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Sound and the Fury is a Southern Gothic novel written by American author William Faulkner, which makes use of the stream of consciousness narrative technique pioneered by European authors such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. ... Literature is literally an acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has, however, generally come to identify a collection of texts. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Transgressional fiction or transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who use unusual and/or illicit ways to break free of those confines. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... In sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, a subculture is a set of people with distinct sets of behavior and beliefs that differentiate them from a larger culture of which they are a part. ... Violence is any act of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause injury, in some cases criminal, or harm to persons, and (by some definitions) animals or property. ...

In April 1996 Kathy Acker was diagnosed with breast cancer, and began to undergo treatment. In January 1997 she wrote about her loss of faith in conventional medicine in a Guardian article, "The Gift of Disease." In the article she explains that after unsuccessful surgery, which left her feeling physically mutilated and emotionally debilitated, she rejected the passivity of the patient in the medical mainstream and began to seek out the advice of nutritionists, acupuncturists, psychic healers, and Chinese herbalists. What appeals to her is that instead of being an object of knowledge, as in Western medicine, the patient becomes a seer, a seeker of wisdom. Illness becomes the teacher and the patient is the student. After pursuing several forms of alternative medicine in England and the United States, Acker died a year and a half later from complications of breast cancer in an alternative cancer clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Complementary and Alternative Medicine be merged into this article or section. ... Tijuana (Spanish [tixwana], English usually [ˌtiːəˈwɑnə]), is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and the seat of the municipality of Tijuana of which the current municipal president is Jorge Hank Rhon of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). ...

Literary biography

Born and raised in New York City, novelist, poet and performance artist Kathy Acker came to be closely associated with the punk movement of the 1970s and 80s that affected much of the culture in and around Manhattan. As an adult, however, she moved around quite a bit. She received her B.A. from the University of California, San Diego in 1968; there she worked with David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg and Herbert Marcuse. She did two years worth of post-graduate work at City University of New York but left before earning a degree. While still in New York she worked as a file clerk, secretary, stripper, and porn actress. During the 70s she often moved back and forth between San Diego, San Francisco and New York. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Punks at a music festival The punk subculture is a subculture based on punk rock. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... David Antin David Antin (born in New York City in 1932) is a United States poet and critic. ... Jerome Rothenberg (born 1931) is an American poet and editor who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics. ... Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a prominent German and later American philosopher and sociologist of Jewish descent, and a member of the Frankfurt School. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: ), is the public university system of New York City. ... PORN can refer to: An abbreviation for pornography Progressive outer retinal necrosis, a disease of the retina Categories: | ...

She married and divorced twice, and though most of her relationships were with men, was openly bisexual throughout her lifetime. In 1979 she won the Pushcart Prize for her short story "New York City in 1979." During the early 80s she lived in London, where she wrote several of her most critically acclaimed works. After returning to the United States in the late 80s she worked as an adjunct professor at the San Francisco Art Institute for about six years and as a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Idaho, the University of California, San Diego, University of California, Santa Barbara, the California Institute of Arts, and Roanoke College. She died in Tijuana, Mexico in an alternative cancer clinic where she was being treated for breast cancer. In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ... For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ... The Pushcart Prize - Best of the small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. ... The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is an accredited undergraduate and graduate school of contemporary art located in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California, United States. ... The University of Idaho is the states land-grant and primary research university, located in the city of Moscow in Latah County. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ... The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. It is one out of 10 campuses of the University of California. ... The California Institute of the Arts, commonly known as CalArts, and located in Valencia, California, grants degrees in visual and performing arts. ... Roanoke College is an independent, four-year, private, coeducational, liberal-arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ... Geography Tijuana is a city in northwestern Mexico. ... Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ...

Acker’s controversial body of work borrows heavily from the experimental styles of William S. Burroughs and Marguerite Duras. She often used extreme forms of pastiche and even Burroughs’s cut-up technique, in which one cuts passages and sentences into several pieces and rearranges them somewhat randomly. Acker herself situated her writing within a post-nouveau roman European tradition. In her texts, she combines biographical elements, power, sex and violence in an intoxicating cocktail. Indeed, critics often compare her writing to that of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jean Genet. Critics have noticed links to Gertrude Stein and photographers Cindy Sherman and Sherrie Levine. Acker’s novels also exhibit a fascination with and an indebtedness to tattoos. ^[1] William Seward Burroughs II (1914 – August 2, 1997), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs, was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras, (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director. ... The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic genre. ... The cut-up technique is a literary form or method in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. ... Nouveau roman refers to certain 1950s French novels that diverged from classical literary genres. ... Alain Robbe-Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-) is a French writer and filmmaker, born in Brest, Finistère, France into a family of engineers and scientists. ... Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 - April 15, 1986), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. ... Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France. ... Cover of Cindy Shermans The Complete Untitled Film Stills Cindy Sherman (born Glen Ridge, New Jersey January 19, 1954) is an American photographer and film director known for her conceptual self portraits. ... Sherrie Levine (born April 17, 1947 in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, United States) is a photographer and image appropriator. ... A tattoo is a mark made by inserting pigment into the skin; in technical terms, tattooing is dermal pigmentation. ...

Although associated with generally well respected artists, even Acker’s most recognized novels, Blood and Guts in High School, Great Expectations and Don Quixote receive mixed critical attention. Most critics acknowledge Acker’s skilled manipulation of plagiarized texts from writers as varied as Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, and Marquis de Sade. She quite clearly has a grasp on poststructuralist theory as well as a profound familiarity with literary history. Many critics, however, find her non-linear plots needlessly incoherent and difficult to read. Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Dickens redirects here. ... Proust redirects here. ... Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (c. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... In the arts, the word nonlinear is used to describe events portrayed in a non-chronological manner. ...

Feminist critics have also had strong responses both for and against Acker’s writing. While some praise her for exposing a misogynistic capitalist society that uses sexual domination as a key form of oppression, others argue that her extreme and frequent use of violent sexual imagery quickly becomes numbing and leads to the degrading objectification of women. Despite repeated criticisms, Acker maintained that in order to challenge the phallogocentric power structures of language, literature must not only experiment with syntax and style, but also give voice to the silenced subjects that common taboos marginalize. The inclusion of controversial topics such as abortion, rape, incest, terrorism, pornography, graphic violence, and feminism demonstrate that conviction. Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or by the politics of feminism more broadly. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Acker published her first book, Politics, in 1972. Although the collection of poems and essays did not garner much critical or public attention, it did establish her reputation within the New York punk scene. In 1973 she published her first novel The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: Some Lives of Murderesses under the pseudonym Black Tarantula. In 1974 she published her second novel, I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

In 1978 she published a collection of three novels. Florida parodies John Huston’s 1948 Film Noir classic Key Largo, Kathy Goes to Haiti details a young woman’s relationship and sexual exploits while on vacation, and The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec provides a fictional autobiography of the 19th century French artist. 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... Key Largo is a 1948 film starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, and Lionel Barrymore. ... Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. ...

In 1979 Acker finally received popular attention when she won the Pushcart Prize for her short story "New York City in 1979." She did not receive critical attention, however, until she published Great Expectations in 1982. The opening of Great Expectations is a clear re-writing of Charles Dickens’s classic of the same name. It features Acker’s usual subject matter, including a semi-autobiographical account of her mother’s suicide and the appropriation of several other texts, including French pornography. That same year, Acker published a chapbook titled Hello, I’m Erica Jong. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ... The Pushcart Prize - Best of the small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Great Expectations is a Bildungsroman (a novel tracing the life of the protagonist) by Charles Dickens and first serialized in All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861. ... Erica (Mann) Jong (born March 26, 1942, in New York City, New York) is an American author and educator. ...

Despite the increased recognition she got for Great Expectations, Blood and Guts in High School is often considered Acker’s breakthrough work. Published in 1984, it is one of her most extreme explorations of sexuality and violence. Borrowing from, among other texts, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Blood and Guts details the experiences of Janey Smith, a sex addicted and pelvic-inflammatory-disease-ridden urbanite who is in love with a father who sells her into slavery. Many critics criticized it for being demeaning toward women and Germany and South Africa banned it completely. Acker published the German court judgement against Blood and Guts in High School in Hannibal Lector, My Father. Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. ... The Scarlet Letter published in 1850, is a Gothic American romance novel written by Graham Gelzhiser; generally considered to be his masterpiece. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

In 1984 Acker published My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini and a year later published Algeria: A Series of Invocations because Nothing Else Works. In 1986 she published Don Quixote, another one of her more acclaimed novels. In Acker’s version of Miguel de Cervantes classic, Don Quixote becomes a young woman obsessed with poststructuralist theory, taking it to a nihilistic extreme. She recognizes the world’s many lies and fakes, believes in nothing and regards identity as an internalized fictional construct. Marching around New York City and London with her dog St. Simeon, who serves as her Sancho Panza, Don Quixote attacks the sexist societies while simultaneously deflating feminist mythologies. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... (IPA: ) or (The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha) is a novel by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Acker published Empire of the Senseless in 1988 and considered it a turning point in her writing. While she still borrows from other texts, including Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the plagiarism is less obvious. The novel comes from the voices of two terrorists, Abhor, who is half human and half robot, and her lover Thivai. The story takes place in the decaying remnants of a post-revolutionary Paris. Like her other works, Empire of the Senseless includes graphic violence and sexuality. However, it turns toward concerns of language more than her previous works. In 1988 she also published Literal Madness: Three Novels which included previously published works Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Florida. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. ... Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Between 1990 and 1993 Acker published four more books: In Memoriam to Identity (1990), Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991), Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels (1992), also comprised of already published works, and My Mother: Demonology (1992). Many critics complained that these later works became redundant and predictable, as Acker continued to explore the same taboos in a similar fashion. Her last novel, Pussy, King of the Pirates, published in 1996, showed signs of Acker’s broadening interests as it incorporates more humor, lighter fantasy and a consideration of Eastern texts and philosophy that was largely absent in her earlier works. 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Posthumous reputation

Acker's work has been acknowledged by a number of younger writers working in an experimental style, including Noah Cicero and Salvador Plascencia. Two volumes of her non-fiction have been published and re-published since her death and in 2002 NYU staged Discipline and Anarchy, a retrospective exhibition of her works ^[2]. Noah Cicero (born 1980) is an American novelist, essayist, playwright, short-story writer, and poet. ... Salvador Plascencia Salvador Plascencia (December 21, 1976 -) is the housemate of Michael Garabedian, rare books librarian and Wikipedia contributor. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... New York University (NYU) is a large research-oriented university in New York City, and is among the most prestigious post-secondary institutions in the United States. ...

Quotes

• "We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities."^[3]
• "Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified."^[4]

Works

• Politics (1972)
• Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula By the Black Tarantula (1973)
• I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining (1974)
• Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1978)
• N.Y.C. in 1979 (1981)
• Great Expectations (1983)
• Algeria : A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works (1984)
• Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
• Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream (1986)
• Literal Madness: Three Novels (Reprinted 1987)
• My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Florida
• Wordplays 5 : An Anthology of New American Drama (1987)
• Empire of the Senseless (1988)
• In Memoriam to Identity (1990)
• Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)
• My Mother: Demonology (1994)
• Pussycat Fever (1995)
• Dust. Essays (1995)
• Pussy, King of the Pirates (1996)
• Bodies of Work : Essays (1997)
• Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels (Reprinted 1998)
• Redoing Childhood (2000) spoken word CD, KRS 349.
• "Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective" (pub. 2002 from manuscript of 1973)

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See also

• Delirium, a comic book character created by Neil Gaiman based on his friend Kathy Acker.
• Postmodern feminism

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Notes

1. ^ http://www.ylioppilaslehti.fi/1996/041096/brief.html
2. ^ http://www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/releases/detail/549
3. ^ http://www.realworldmultimedia.com/legacy/eve/info/experts/k_acker.html
4. ^ http://www.benortiz.com/classes/archives/000183.php

Further reading

• Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker, ed. Carla Harryman, Avital Ronell, and Amy Scholder (Verso, 2006)
• Devouring Institutions: The Life Work of Kathy Acker, ed. Michael Hardin (Hyperbole/San Diego State University Press: 2004). DEVOURING INSTITUTIONS

External links

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Kathy Acker

• Oblivion: Kathy Acker's CalArts website
• Matias Viegener's memoir of Acker's death. Viegener was a close friend who was with her when she died and is currently Acker's literary executor.
• Inventory of the Kathy Acker Papers, 1972-1997 and n.d., at Duke University
• Kill Rock Stars artist page, including mp3 sample track from Redoing Childhood
• A Conversation with Kathy Acker By Ellen G. Friedman