Chris kraus kathy acker biography
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Acker’s life was a fable; and to describe the confusion and love and conflicting agendas behind these memorials would be to sketch an apocryphal allegory of an artistic life in the late 20th century.
Chris kraus kathy acker biography
It is girls from which stories begin, she wrote in her last notebook. And like other lives, but unlike most fables, it was created through means both within and beyond her control. – AFTER KATHY ACKER
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon … scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker’s legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself.
Twenty years after her death, Acker’s legend has faded, making her writing more legible.
In this first, fully authorized literary biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer, and as a member of the artistic communities from which she emerged. At once forensic and intimate, AFTER KATHY ACKER traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to devel