Acker

NYC Book launches, High caliber coverage in magazines such as Lithub, Hyperallergic, and Bomb

A lyric essay written through Kathy Acker’s evocative prose, public statements, and private archivesA lyric cover of Kathy Acker’s career and a study of the development of narrative in her books deftly tracing Acker’s interactions with a diverse palette of avant-gardisms, world letters, cultures, and theory. Martin follows Acker through New York’s downtown St. Mark’s Poetry Project scene, Black Mountain College, and the Beats, as Acker embarks on her own deconstructions of subjects autobiographical and historical, art procedurals, proto-conceptual writing, legacies, and spirits.