Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker
Kathy Ackerwas an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy and pornography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
american-activist bad understanding
We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
american-activist examine government high literary
The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.
lobotomy want ask-me
If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.
students
I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
language
Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.
rotten world legs
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
mind
Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.
dog powerful believe
Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.
our-world bird together
It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.
banned knows
You know I've had work banned.
expectations trying kind
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
mind nightmare eating
GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.
half body piercings
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
berlin sailor bigs
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.