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  <title><![CDATA[In Memoriam to Identity]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;In this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rimbaud, the delinquent symbolist prodigy, is deserted by his lover Verlaine time and time again. Airplane takes a job dancing at Fun City, the seventh tier of the sex industry, in order to support her good-for-nothing boyfriend. And Capitol feels alive only when she's having sex with her brother, Quentin. In Memoriam to Identity is at once a revelatory addition to, and an irreverent critique of, the literature of decadence and self-destruction.&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[It almost sounds like the setup for an elaborate joke told in a depressing bar: what do Rimbaud and Verlaine, Faulkner's Compsons, and a stripper named Airplane have in common? (Punchline: ...)<br/><br/>Obsessive love is all over the place in literature and in literary lives, and Acker weaves a fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60545350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In memoriam to identity by Kathy Acker (1990)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A three-part eulogy to self-destruction: Rimbaud, crazed, almost vampiric, in mutual obsession with Verlaine; Airplane and her flights from and back into victimization; Capitol (Caddy from <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Sound and the Fury" title="The Sound and the Fury">The Sound and the Fury</a>) whose journey into discovery amidst strip clubs and the bottoms of cocktail glasses pro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15608682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[kathy acker at her best. lots of violence and sex (as always) and demonstrative of acker's mastery at using the psychological and interpersonal as metaphor for socio-political issues, and socio-political issues as metaphor for the psychological and interpersonal. it's certainly more accessible than ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1929920">more...</a>]]></body>
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