Kathy Acker

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born

April 18, 1947

died

November 30, 1997

place of birth

New York, United States

influences

Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, fast food, pornography

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Acker's writing is as difficult to classify into any particular genre as she herself was. She writes fluidly, operating in the borderlands and junkyards of human experience. Her work is experimental, playful, and provacative, engagingly alienating, narratively non sequitur.

books by Kathy Acker

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avg rating: 3.68 | 1278 ratings | 31 distinct works

	Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel (Paperback) by Kathy Acker avg rating 3.63 — 310 ratings — published 1978 7 editions	my rating:
	Empire of the Senseless (Paperback) by Kathy Acker avg rating 3.71 — 147 ratings — published 1988 5 editions	my rating:
	Pussy, King of the Pirates (Paperback) by Kathy Acker avg rating 3.57 — 152 ratings — published 1997 3 editions	my rating:
	Great Expectations (Paperback) by Kathy Acker avg rating 3.55 — 130 ratings — published 1989 7 editions	my rating:
	Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream (Paperback) by Kathy Acker avg rating 3.77 — 103 ratings — published 1986 4 editions	my rating:
	My Mother: Demonology (Hardcover) by Kathy Acker avg rating 3.86 — 66 ratings — published 1995 3 editions	my rating:
	In Memoriam to Identity (Paperback) by Kathy Acker avg rating 3.85 — 65 ratings — published 1998 6 editions	my rating:
	Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels - The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula, I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac - Imaging, the Adult Life Toulouse (Paperback) by Kathy Acker avg rating 3.70 — 63 ratings — published 1998 3 editions	my rating:
	Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker (Paperback) by Kathy Acker avg rating 4.03 — 35 ratings — published 2002	my rating:
	LITERAL MADNESS (Acker, Kathy) by Kathy Acker avg rating 3.94 — 32 ratings — published 1989 2 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Kathy Acker

""...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...""
— Kathy Acker (Pussy, King of the Pirates)

3 people liked it

"i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed."
— Kathy Acker (Pussy, King of the Pirates)

3 people liked it

"Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.
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— Kathy Acker (Blood and Guts in High School)

2 people liked it

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