Kathy Acker
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About Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker (née Karen Lehmann) (18 April 1947 – 30 November 1997) was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography. Born to a wealthy Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, Acker took her last name from her first husband, Robert Acker; though born as Karen, she was known as Kathy by her friends and family.
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Empire Of The Senseless
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The Temple of Eros
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President Bush
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Miss Savage's School for Girls
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A Country That I've Never Seen
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Outside the Law, Which Is Language
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I Will Stay With You Tonight
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I was walking down the street
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The Female Doctor
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Face to Face With Death
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Track 3
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Hotel of the Lilac Eyes
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Hotel Etolle Rouge
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Extract From "The Empire Of The Senseless"
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Empire of the Sea
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Hotel Etoile Rouge
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First Whore Song
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Entrance Of The Punk Boys
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The Loneliness Of Pussy
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The End Of The World
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Second Whore Song
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on fitting in and punk culture
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on trying to access already-there languages
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The Story of St Gallbladder
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on accessing sexual language
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Pussy Language
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on the Hammer Horror influence
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My Name Is O
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Ange's Song as She Crawled Through London
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on the Situationists
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I want to tell you about myself
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reading from "Ostracism's Story"
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The Slave Trader
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on locating pleasure in writing
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on shocking readers and reappropriating language
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Captured by Pirates
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ostracism's song to pussycat
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I Was Walking Down The Street (One Of The Fairytales The Whores Of Montmartre Tell Each Other To Put Each Other To Sleep After A Hard Nights Work In "The Adult Life Of Toulouse Lautrec")
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on "Pussy King of the Pirates"
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on "Empire of the Senseless"
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on post-capitalist society
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reading from "I Meet Myself"
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The Diseased
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Antigone Speaks About Herself
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My Song at Night
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Antigone, You See Her
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on different feminisms
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on working through problems of identity, language, and appropriation
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Temple of Eros
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The Song of the Dogs
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