In Memoriam to Identity Loth

by Kathy Acker

Book Overview

Kathy Acker's characteristically outrageous, lyrical, and hyperinventive novel concerns three characters who share an impulse toward self-immolation through doomed, obsessive romance. Teetering somewhere between the Beats and Punk, IN MEMORIAM TO IDENTITY is at once a revelatory addition to, and an irreverent critique of, literature of decadence and self-destruction.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080211170X
• ISBN13: 9780802111708
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Achingly beautiful

Acker is not for everyone, but if you're a fan or a literary fiction reader or open to Acker's wild ride through language and heartbreak and sensuality, I highly recommend this novel. Her language is never more distilled and powerful than here, if you have the ears for it. One of my very favorite Acker books, and obviously I'm a fan.

kathy acker takes on rimbaud

kathy deconstructs rimbaud, baudelaire, and faulkner in this beautiful mess of a book. it tells the tale of the ill-fated relationship between rimbaud and baudelaire and asks if being alone is better than being in a relationship that isn't supposed to be. it also retells faulkner's sound and the fury in an updated, perverse manner. 'come alive dead heart, and sing...' kathy's approach is never subtle, and is not recommended for those easily offended, but when you accept the dirtiness, all of the beauty seeps in.