In Memoriam To Identity
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Book Overview
In Memoriam to Identity is a weird, violent, searing, angry work, full of pain, dislocation, desire, hate and the raging drive of resistant creation. . . . Kathy Acker has invented a form of secret historiography, a language of shock and sensation that provides a vivid, disruptive, unsettling readout on the psychosocial trauma of our time.--Tim Clark, Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0679738428
ISBN13:9780679738428
Release Date:February 1992
Publisher:Pantheon
Length:265 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:8.3" x 0.8" x 5.5"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Achingly beautiful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Acker is not for everyone, but if you're a fan or a literary fiction reader or open to Acker's wild ride through language and heartbreak and sensuality, I highly recommend this novel. Her language is never more distilled and powerful than here, if you have the ears for it. One of my very favorite Acker books, and obviously I'm a fan.
kathy acker takes on rimbaud
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
kathy deconstructs rimbaud, baudelaire, and faulkner in this beautiful mess of a book. it tells the tale of the ill-fated relationship between rimbaud and baudelaire and asks if being alone is better than being in a relationship that isn't supposed to be. it also retells faulkner's sound and the fury in an updated, perverse manner. 'come alive dead heart, and sing...' kathy's approach is never subtle, and is not recommended for those easily offended, but when you accept the dirtiness, all of the beauty seeps in.
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