
In this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rimbaud, the delinquent symbolist prodigy, is deserted by his lover Verlaine time...

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...

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A novel which draws on and solves both classic texts and Americana. For Rimbaud, it is the agony of love that confirms his identity, while his lover Verlaine is reluctant to sacrifice the facade of a bourgeois marriage for the relationship. By the author of "Blood and Guts in...