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by Kathy Acker; Amy Scholder (Editor); Dennis Cooper (Editor)

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The incredible variety of Acker's body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-20th century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life.

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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 culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life. Her vision questions everything we take for granted -- the authority of parents, government, and the law; sexuality and the policing of desire -- and puts in its place a universe of polymorphous perversity and shameless, playful freakery. Spanning Acker's '70s punk interventions through more than a dozen major novels, Essential Acker is an indispensable overview of the work of this distinctive American writer and a reminder of her challenge to and influence on writers of the future. "Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know." -- Tom LeClair, The New York Times Book Review

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  • Title Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker
  • Author Kathy Acker; Amy Scholder (Editor); Dennis Cooper (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press, New York
  • Publication date 2002-09-12
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780802139214 / 0802139213
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.56 x 0.91 in (20.88 x 14.12 x 2.31 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002016446
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booklist, 10/15/2002, Page 385
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2002, Page 1246
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