"It is girls from which stories begin"
KRAUS, Chris. After Kathy Acker. South Pasedena: Semiotexte. 2017.
8vo. Original red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine; black endpapers; illustrated dust jacket; pp. [xii], 345, [7]; very minimal bruising to head of dust jacket; otherwise fine.
First edition.
"Acker's life was a fable, and to describe the confusion and love and conflicting agendas behind these memorials would be to setch an apocryphal allegory of an artistic life in the twentieth century. "It is girls from which stories begin", she wrote in her last notebook. And like other lives, but unlike most fables, it was created through means both within and beyond her control".- Chris Kraus.
This first edition of the first fully authorised biography of an exceptionally subversive literary figure, After Kathy Acker, is Chris Kraus' intimate excavation of Acker's transgressive literary strategies and personal life as retold by countless interviews with mutual colleagues and friends alongside meticulous archival research.
After Kathy Acker is an intense, engrossing portrait of a bold, experimental writer who proved to be inspiration to "a constellation of artists, musicians, writers and thinks who were her friends, lovers, inspirations, and fellow makers of history"- Maggie Nelson.
Chris Kraus is herself a seminal writer, having published the bestselling I Love Dick as well as achieving the 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship and being author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor and Summer of Hate amongst works of cultural criticism.
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