About Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker (née Karen Alexander) (18 April 1947 - 30 November 1997) was an American experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, and sex-positive feminist writer. One of the leading experimental writers of her generation, she was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography.
Novels
The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: By the Black Tarantula (1973)
I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac (1974)
The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec: By Henri Toulouse Lautrec (1975)
The Complete Works of Constance De Jong (1975)
N. Y. C. in Nineteen Seventy-Nine (1981)
Great Expectations (1982)
Hello, I'm Erica Jong (1982)
Algeria: A series of invocations Because nothing else works (1984)
Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
Don Quixote (1986)
Literal Madness (1987)
Empire of the Senseless (1988)
The Beginning of the Life of Rimbaud (1989)
Kathy Goes to Haiti (1990)
In Memoriam to Identity (1990)
Rapid Eye (1992)
My Mother: Demonology (1993)
Pussy, King of the Pirates (1995)
Pussycat Fever (1995)
Collateral Damage (1997)
Eurydice in the Underworld (1997)
Artspace Is / Artspace Was (2001)
Rip-Off Red: And the Burning Bombing of America (2002)
I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac (1974)
The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec: By Henri Toulouse Lautrec (1975)
The Complete Works of Constance De Jong (1975)
N. Y. C. in Nineteen Seventy-Nine (1981)
Great Expectations (1982)
Hello, I'm Erica Jong (1982)
Algeria: A series of invocations Because nothing else works (1984)
Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
Don Quixote (1986)
Literal Madness (1987)
Empire of the Senseless (1988)
The Beginning of the Life of Rimbaud (1989)
Kathy Goes to Haiti (1990)
In Memoriam to Identity (1990)
Rapid Eye (1992)
My Mother: Demonology (1993)
Pussy, King of the Pirates (1995)
Pussycat Fever (1995)
Collateral Damage (1997)
Eurydice in the Underworld (1997)
Artspace Is / Artspace Was (2001)
Rip-Off Red: And the Burning Bombing of America (2002)
Omnibus
Collections
The Persian Poems (poems) (1980)
Implosion: Three Short Plays (1983)
Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)
Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels (1992)
Bodies of Work: Essays (1996)
Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker (2002)
Implosion: Three Short Plays (1983)
Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)
Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels (1992)
Bodies of Work: Essays (1996)
Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker (2002)
Kathy Acker recommends
 Cows (1998) (Little House on the Bowery , book 1) Matthew Stokoe "Stokoe's vision of Hell is a carnivore's nightmare. A powerful and all too possibly prophetic work." |
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