Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker
Kathy Ackerwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
men guy supportive
But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
girl strong up-to-you
It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now and you have to take care of yourself. No one's going to help you.
writing thinking magic
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
wells homophobia
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.
grateful mean work-out
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.
wings right-wing left-wing
Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
easy surface love-each-other
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
mean hygiene people
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
dream writing people
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because Im not so censored when I use dream material.
levels machines literature
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
thinking media censorship
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
hate waiting unbearable
I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
limitless natural disaster
i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.
berlin sailor bigs
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.