"Often compared to William S. Burroughs and Jean Genet, Acker was, according to R.U. Sirius, 'An avatar of nomadic urban modern primitive tribes... her novels perform postmodern campfire grill voodoo... She was a magician." New York City, 1979 "Reading Kathy Acker is like playing hopscotch with a genius." Richard Foreman
Kathy Acker was a novelist, essayist and performance artist whose
books include Blood and Guts in High School, The Childlike Life of
the Black Tarantula, Empire of the Senseless, In Memoriam to
Identity, Don Quixote, My Mother- Demonology, and her last novel,
Pussy King of the Pirates. Born and raised on New York's Upper East
Side, she died of breast cancer in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1997.
Sylv re Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European
Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French
literature and philosophy at Columbia University.
"Often compared to William S. Burroughs and Jean Genet, Acker was, according to R.U. Sirius, 'An avatar of nomadic urban modern primitive tribes... her novels perform postmodern campfire grill voodoo... She was a magician." New York City, 1979 "Reading Kathy Acker is like playing hopscotch with a genius." Richard Foreman
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