· Twenty years after her untimely death aged just 50, Acker's legend has faded, making her writing more legible. In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a 4/5(2). Chris Kraus's After Kathy Acker sets the bar for what will surely be a new era of critical and biographical reckoning with the life and work of Kathy Acker. Kraus had a ringside seat, has done her homework, and here provides a substantive effort to pay homage not only to the complex, singular, raucous, and crucial writer and human that Acker was, but also to the constellation of artists, . · After Kathy Acker is a biography of the writer and cultural icon, as told often through the words of her friends and lovers as well as her own writings. Kraus approaches the task accepting the difficulty of fact and fiction, the stories Acker created about herself and the /5.
The focus on Acker follows on the heels of a resurgence of interest in her work, including notably Chris Kraus's long-anticipated biography, After Kathy Acker, and Douglas A. Martin's book of criticism, simply titled Acker, both published late last year. Acker is both an apt and ironic figure to represent the East Village. Chris Kraus's After Kathy Acker is one of the best books of the year. A biography of an elusive, and barely understood, literary figure, it's also a secret history of a certain time and place. When I read an advanced copy, I couldn't stop talking about the book. This included a conversation with Kraus's Semiotext(e) co-editor Hedi El. The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, many of them created by her. Twenty years after her untimely death at age 50, Acker's legend has faded, but her writing has become clearer. A few years ago, the writer Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick, found that her own experiences were becoming more and more like Kathy's.
In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer, and as a member of the artistic communities from which she emerged. At once forensic and intimate, After Kathy Acker traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody. Using exhaustive archival research and ongoing conversations with mutual colleagues and friends, Kraus charts Acker's movement through some of the late twentieth. Chris Kraus's After Kathy Acker sets the bar for what will surely be a new era of critical and biographical reckoning with the life and work of Kathy Acker. Kraus had a ringside seat, has done her homework, and here provides a substantive effort to pay homage not only to the complex, singular, raucous, and crucial writer and human that Acker was, but also to the constellation of artists, musicians, writers, and thinkers who were her friends, lovers, inspirations, and fellow makers of history. Twenty years after her untimely death aged just 50, Acker's legend has faded, making her writing more legible. In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer.
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