Kathy Acker - Writing the ImpossiblePaperback
Kathy Acker - Writing the ImpossiblePaperback An in-depth analysis of the work of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writersKathy Acker's body of work is one of the most significant…
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Kathy Acker - Writing the ImpossiblePaperback
An in-depth analysis of the work of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writersKathy Acker's body of work is one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. Through original archival research, Colby traces the stages in Acker's writing and draws on her knowledge of unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, essays, illustrations, and correspondence to produce new ways of reading Acker's works. In Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible, Georgina Colby explores Acker's compositional processes and intricate experimental practices, from early poetic exercises written in the 1970s to her final writings in 1997.
Rather than treating Acker as a postmodern writer this book argues that Acker continued a radical modernist engagement with the crisis of language, and carried out a series of experiments in composition and writing that