books by Kathy Acker     books:       Don Quixote: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)3 reviews Kathy Acker Grove Press, 1994 Don Quixote wanders through a Hieronymus Bosch painting... At the core of this novel Kathy Acker states the dilemma succinctly thus: "It can't be mistaken to need someone else to love and yet only human solitariness allows human survival." On every level--the personal, the social, the psychological, the political, the cosmic--this paradox is replayed in Acker's hallucinogenic deconstruction of Cervantes' classic. Of course, there's very little ...             My Mother: Demonology: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)4 reviews Kathy Acker Grove Press, 1994 Get this book! This is my favorite Kathy Acker book--in fact, it is one of my all-time, absolute, favorite books of all time. It is just stunning, amazing, incredibly gorgeous, beautiful, awesome...by the end I was in a sweat, fainting, overwhelmed, thoroughly blown away by the incredible beauty and truth of this book. It will change you, open things up, a real SUBLIME experience. I could not recommened it ...             Empire of the Senseless: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)4 reviews Kathy Acker Grove Press, 1994 Acker describes the senselessness of this mileu Empire of the Senseless is schizogenic because the reality it is dealing with, and our own mileu is schizogenic. Acker comes from the cut and paste school, via Burroughs and the Fluxus experiments and interprets reality through a greasy sometimes opaque, sometimes lewd, sometimes amazingly transcendental lens. This is a "language" author and as well Acker is committed to art movements, ...             Pussy, King of the Pirates (Acker, Kathy)8 reviews Kathy Acker Grove Press, 1996 the best Acker Kathy Acker is, in my opinion, the best avant-garde author who ever existed, and "Pussy King of Pirates" is her greatest work--topping even "Empire of the Senseless"--which is too bad that it was her last. following the exploits of girls seeking treasure, Pirate girls, and surreal avatars of writers like Antonin Artaud, "Pussy King of Pirates" goes farther than Acker has ever gone with the ...             Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker (Acker, Kathy) Kathy Acker Grove Press, 2002 Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper have distilled the incredible variety of Acker's body of work into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-twentieth-century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular ...             Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia12 reviews Samuel R. Delany Wesleyan, 1996 A different view. A book is a machine to generate interpretations, as Eco wrote. Thus, not one interpretation can be the correct one, and all we can do is to add to what other people have experienced at some point while reading a book. Due to my own life experience, I perceive, perhaps, several more levels to this novel. The first time I read it, about 20 years ago, I was 10 and didn't understand many of the ...             Literal Madness: Three Novels: Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida (Acker, ...2 reviews Kathy Acker Grove Press, 1994 Early Feminist Hyperreal Novels: Best of a New Genre in Fict Kathy Acker has become known as the queen of punk feminist fiction. With Literal Madness she solidified that position. Three short texts unrelated to each other but connected by the quest metaphor. Of the three, Kath Goes to Haiti -- a pseudo-biographical piece -- calls for the most sustained interest. It is ostensibly a travel book adventure in the third world, but ultimately its quest is ...             Great Expectations: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)2 reviews Kathy Acker Grove Press, 1994 a wonderful but difficult book kathy acker doesn't cut any corners - ever. great expectations might shock you, might offend you, might even hurt and disturb you. but acker can deconstruct sexuality and eroticism and living like no one else can, and you might learn a lot about yourself and this rough, confusing existence.             Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)11 reviews Kathy Acker Grove Press, 1994 Finished it on an airplane...really cool! (Actually "in") Excellent book. While my perfect rating (not that it matters) may drop over time, this was a jarringly satisfying read, one where the slipstream sexual complexity of all the smattered nonsense makes the cliches within (esp. at the end) all the more simple, profound, and resonant. It's something of an immature work perhaps, but I sort of think of it as the author really burying herself within ...             Hannibal Lecter, My Father (Native Agents)2 reviews Kathy Acker Semiotext(e), 1991 Uncollected work of one of the real mavericks Pity about the title, but then Kathy Acker wasn't a believer in good taste. A handy, pocket-sized collection of some early and not-so-early work by the mistress of gut-level fiction-making. Acker is the sort of the writer that should be read first at 16, so that you can spend the rest of your life trying to figure her out; she confuses, infuriates, perplexes and then all of a sudden the ...             Eurydice in the Underworld Kathy Acker Arcadia Books, 1998 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.             Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America (Acker, Kathy) Kathy Acker Grove Press, 2002 Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of Kathy Acker's writing career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, as Acker's typical literary playfulness transforms the genre conventions of detective fiction into a book that is simultaneously a mystery and a personal, raunchy, and politically astute account of life in New York City. The Burning ...             Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels (Acker, Kathy)3 reviews Kathy Acker Grove Press, 1997 Wonderful Introduction to Acker This is a wonderful introduction to Acker...to all the major themes, motifs and techniques she would continue to explore through the rest of her life. I've had trouble with her work in the past, but these 3 short novels pulled me into her mindset enough to get a handle on what she is about and made me want to re-read her later work. These works are highly experimental, using a fractured ...             In Memoriam to Identity (Acker, Kathy)3 reviews Kathy Acker Grove Press, 1998 kathy acker takes on rimbaud kathy deconstructs rimbaud, baudelaire, and faulkner in this beautiful mess of a book. it tells the tale of the ill-fated relationship between rimbaud and baudelaire and asks if being alone is better than being in a relationship that isn't supposed to be. it also retells faulkner's sound and the fury in an updated, perverse manner. 'come alive dead heart, and sing...' kathy's approach is never ...             Pussy1 review Kathy Acker Codex, 1999 From me to you. Kathy Acker, I want your pussy             Pussycat Fever1 review Kathy Acker AK Press, 2001 An excellent combination of text, art, and attitude! This book is an extremely fast read - I finished it on the bus home, which takes about an hour. However, if you choose to follow my example and read this title in public, you should be forewarned that the illustrations are (at times) graphic. If you're squeamish about other persons looking over your should at things that border on the explicit, you may want to consider reading this in private. ...             Bodies of Work1 review Kathy Acker Serpent's Tail, 2006 On the Attack Acker is well known for her curious brand of W.S. Burroughsian hypertextual fiction. However, in this essay collection, Acker experiments with the realm of non-fiction and pushes the essay to its limits. Her writing here is just as political, transgressive, and outrageous as it is in her novels. Acker takes on a wide breadth of subject matter including the importance of Peter Greenaway's films ...              search for books agents, ambiguous, america, bombing, burning, demonology, detective, essential, eurydice, expectations, father, florida, hannibal, heterotopia, identity, literal, madness, memoriam, native, pasolini, pirates, portrait, pussycat, quixote, rip-off, selected, senseless, trouble, underworld, writings books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Bedeutende Linden leave a comment home  impressum - about us