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
goal world way
LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world.
rotten world legs
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
our-world bird together
It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.
men atheism world
The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.
running pain world
Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.
american-activist country happens
I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.
american-activist
I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.
american-activist
I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
american-activist
But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.
american-activist people
Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.
country effective political
And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.
american-activist modernist
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
american-activist
You can do whatever you want with my work.
american-activist fascinated practices techniques various wondering
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.