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1. www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › kathy-ackerKathy Acker | Poetry Foundation

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   Novelist, essayist, and performance artist Kathy Acker was born and raised in New York City. She was educated at Brandeis University and the University of California at San Diego, where she earned her BA. Black Mountain poet Charles Olson and novelist William S. Burroughs were great influences on…

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     Kathy Acker poetry reading San Francisco 1991

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Kathy_AckerKathy Acker - Wikipedia

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   Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 [2] [disputed] – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion.

4. lithub.com › digging-through-kathy-ackers-stuffDigging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff ‹ Literary Hub

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   I’m tired and it’s late and it frightens me how Bride of Chucky rhymes with The Skeleton Key which rhymes with so much about my experience with Kathy—Kathy’s rewriting of Treasure Island in Pussy King of the Pirates, hoodoo bottles, digging through boxes of a dead person’s stuff, taking a charm.

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   Kathy Acker, assisted by Rae Armantrout and Kit Robinson, reads her work from manuscript, "Eat Your Heart Out," speculating on an obsessive relationship between Janis Joplin and James Dean, on...

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7. lithub.com › neil-gaiman-on-the-great-kathy-ackerNeil Gaiman on the Great Kathy Acker ‹ Literary Hub

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   Feb 12, 2021 · Neil Gaiman: Kathy Acker was a thinker, a performer, a reader of her work, a poet, a teacher. But it started with the words, and with the writing. She wrote porn because porn texts were there in the things she’d cut up and play with and interrogate.

8. www.poetryfoundation.org › podcasts › 76990Me No One Will Take: A Discussion of Kathy… | Poetry Foundation

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   May 19, 2015 · So we're here today to talk about two poems Kathy Acker inserted into the middle of her novel ‘Blood and Guts in High School’. These are poems written by Janey Smith. The, by this point, 12 or 13 year old central character of the story.

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   Who is Kathy Acker?

   • Novelist, essayist, and performance artist Kathy Acker was born and raised in New York City. She was educated at Brandeis University and the University of California at San Diego, where she earned her BA. Black Mountain poet Charles Olson and novelist William S. Burroughs were great influences on Acker.

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   Who is writing about Kathy Acker?

   • Neil Gaiman: I’m writing about Kathy Acker’s book Pussy, King of the Pirates. Janey Smith: So. I’m a listless hipster girl with a very creative fringe, aged about 25, picking up this book in a shop in Brooklyn. Why should I read Kathy Acker? Neil Gaiman: Kathy was a punk author.

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   How did Kathy Acker die?

   • Acker died of cancer in 1997. The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University holds a selection of her papers. Novelist, essayist, and performance artist Kathy Acker was born and raised in New York City.

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   Is there a documentary about Kathy Acker?

   • Myspace. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012. "no one can find little girls any more: Kathy Acker in Australia" (1997). Documentary film by Jonathan and Felicity Dawson. Griffith University, 90 minutes. Footage from this film is included in Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker? A documentary by Barbara Caspar

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10. newrepublic.com › article › 170001How Kathy Acker Stayed Radical | The New Republic

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    Jan 13, 2023 · As suited her fascination with writing as transformation and a form of consciousness, she began as a poet, making an impression at the Bowery Poetry Club, at the time a home for the largely...