Kathy Acker Quotes


Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.


Citations

Acker, Kathy. "An Interview with Kathy Acker." Interview by Larry McCaffery. Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors, edited by Larry McCaffery, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

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Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker
  • Born: April 18, 1947
  • Died: November 30, 1997
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Playwright, Essayist, Poet

Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, Carolee Schneeman, Eleanor Antin, and by French critical theory, mysticism, and pornography, as well as classic literature.