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New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker

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casparb's review

Frustrated I hadn't read this yet & o!! Kathy Acker martial law dictates the mandatory spelling of LESBIANS in all caps. Anyway as much as we trumpet the phrase INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD - and isn't it fun ! I do find this text complicates that though not so disruptively as to damage its overriding powerviolence. I don't think the description of an 'open slimy hole' is much intended to intensify sexual desire. And o my if men aren't awful.

I think this is exquisite a fuckemup prose poem or daringly a stage play could work. The in-text images I'm trying to work out I think they weren't originally there? But they do splendidly. KA did well

It's necessary to go to as many extremes as possible.

samgray's review

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3.0

I wanted an introduction to Acker before jumping into more of her work. This little volume gave me just that!

I liked what I read, but I definitely was left wanting more context- I will have to read the full works that these excerpts came from.

This volume would have benefitted from an introduction or an afterword.

carolinaavellar's review

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dark fast-paced

1.5

cocoanatomical's review

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adventurous dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

that_bookworm_guy's review

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medium-paced

3.75

I don't really know how to describe this book, and I don't really know what it was that made me enjoy it. The subject matter is a little weird and not really my kind of thing, however the writing was interesting and flowed really well.