アンダーグラウンドのインスタグラム(resul80k2) - 10月4日 20時00分

Its National Poetry Day here in the UK. So, spare us some poetic licence and we are going to talk about Kathy Acker, born in the US yes, but she spent some of the most important years in London.

Born into a middle-class Jewish family in New York’s Upper East Side, Acker set the tone for her later life by spending most of her teens in downtown Manhattan learning the ropes of sub culture and the Avant Garde.
Graduating from the University of California in 1968, Acker moved back to NY where she studied Classics but distracted by life she never completed her graduation. She spent her time experimenting with writing and earning an income doing whatever came her way including spells as a stripper and porn performer.
The early 1970’s was the place to be and Acker found herself part of the embryonic punk scene. Identifying as postmodernist and drawing influence from William S Burroughs Acker was at the right place at the right time. Her first publication was The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: Some Lives of the Murderesses and this was followed in 1978 by Blood and Guts in the High School. It told a tale of sexual addiction, prostitution, slavery and violence in enough detail to have it banned in Germany, being considered pornographic. The novel contains poetry inserted, collage style, the cut-up style clearly influenced by Burroughs.

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