Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker

by Kathy Acker, Amy Scholder, Jeanette Winterson

Book Overview

Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper have distilled the incredible variety of Acker's body of work into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-twentieth-century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B005SN8H7W
• ISBN13: 9780802139214
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"