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Kathy Acker
Author profile
born
April 18, 1947
in New York, The United States
died
November 30, 1997
gender
female
genre
influences
Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French criti...more
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Blood and Guts in High School
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1984
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Empire of the Senseless
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
3.61 avg rating — 335 ratings
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1996
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Great Expectations: A Novel
3.52 avg rating — 305 ratings
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1982
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Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream
3.71 avg rating — 237 ratings
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My Mother: Demonology
3.88 avg rating — 168 ratings
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1993
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In Memoriam to Identity
3.85 avg rating — 135 ratings
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1990
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Portrait of an Eye: The Childlike Life of The Black Tarantula by The Black Tarantula, I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining, The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec
3.73 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Literal Madness
3.80 avg rating — 101 ratings
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published
1987
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Essential Acker: The Selected Writings
by Kathy Acker, Amy Scholder , Dennis Cooper  4.12 avg rating — 77 ratings
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2002
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“Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.”
― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates
― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates
“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates
― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates
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