A collection of early and not-so-early work by the mistress of gut-level
fiction-making. You can say I write stories with sex and violence and
therefore my writing isn't worth considering because it uses content
much less lots of content. Well, I tell you this: 'Prickly race, who
know nothing except how to eat out your hearts with envy, you don't eat
cunt'...
Edited by Sylvere Lotringer and published in 1991, this
handy, pocket-sized collection of some early and not-so-early work by
the mistress of gut-level fiction-making, Hannibal Lecter, My Father
gathers together Acker's raw, brilliant, emotional and cerebral texts
from 1970s, including the self-published 'zines written under the
nom-de-plume, The Black Tarantula. This volume features, among others,
the full text of Acker's opera, The Birth of the Poet, produced at
Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1985, Algeria, 1979 and fragments of
Politics, written at the age of 21. Also included is the longest and
definitive interview Acker ever gave over two years: a chatty,
intriguing and delightfully self-deprecating conversation with
Semiotext(e) editor Sylvere Lotringer-which is trippy enough in itself
as Lotringer, besides being a real person, has appeared as a character
in Acker's fiction.
And last, but not least, is the full
transcript of the decision reached by West Germany's Federal Inspection
Office for Publications Harmful to Minors in which Acker's work was
judged to be "not only youth-threatening but also dangerous to adults,"
and subsequently banned. Acker is the sort of the writer that should be
read first at 16, so that you can spend the rest of your life trying to
figure her out; she confuses, infuriates, perplexes and then all of a
sudden the writing seems to be in your bloodstream, like some kind of
benign virus. She's definitely not for the easily offended-but then,
there are worse things in life than being offended.
Such as the things that Acker writes about...
Hannibal Lecter, My Father - Kathy Acker & Chris Kraus
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