Kathy Acker

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United States
US
Nationality: 
United States
US
Born: 
1947
Died: 
1997
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Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, the writer William S. Burroughs, the artist and theoretician David Antin, French critical theory, feminist artists Carolee Schneeman and Eleanor Antin, and by philosophy, mysticism, and pornography.

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Work title Publication Type Year
Empire of the Senseless Print publication (antecedent) 1988

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