{"id":46902,"date":"2019-10-21T21:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=46902"},"modified":"2019-10-22T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:00:08","slug":"kathy-acker-1971-1975-editions-ismael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=46902","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Acker (1971-1975). Editions Ismael"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kathy Acker (1971-1975)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Presentation:<\/p>\n

This book is the first attempt to produce a critical edition of a large number of Kathy Acker\u2019s unpublished early works. Apart from the posthumous publication, in 2002, of the early manuscript Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the U.S. by Amy Scholder and Grove Press in one volume, in 2002, as well as Gabrielle Kappes\u2019 chapbook, no other important publication had been attempted in this field.<\/p>\n

These \u2013 mostly unpublished \u2013 texts were all composed between 1969 and 1976. Yet they are representative of Acker\u2019s published output only for the period running from 1971 to early 1974. These texts all exist as \u201cclean\u201d typewritten copies, probably intended to be kept, shown, maybe even published. The editor chose not to include Acker\u2019s manuscripts. The transcriptions in this volume were made directly from the original typescripts. Original pagination, manuscript addenda, missing pages and other idiosyncrasies of each file have been preserved; our editorial notes at the end of the texts all feature a material description of the source version used.<\/p>\n

The organization of this volume is chronological. The texts\u2019 respective date of composition is often the result of an estimate based on their content and form (an estimate that is then justified and defended).<\/p>\n

Such a collection shows how prolific, diverse and always in-progress Acker\u2019s production was in those years. It isn\u2019t, however, Acker\u2019s complete early works. More typescripts exist at the Fales Library which aren\u2019t featured or alluded to in this book. Their publication and analysis may in the future suggest a whole new set of interpretations that will, or might not, contradict the present editor\u2019s exegesis. Moreover, the comparison of the typescripts with manuscript versions will undoubtedly inspire new perspectives on Acker\u2019s creative process and intentions during those years.<\/p>\n

Table of contents:
\nAcknowledgements and Foreword \u2013 Editor
\nAre You Surprised that Kathy Acker Was an Aries Because I\u2019m Not \u2014 Claire Finch
\nThe Golden Woman (ca. 1969-1970) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nSection from: Diary (1-2\/1971) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nPortraits (7\/1971) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nPortraits and Visions (ca. summer 1971) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nDiary Warmcatfur (1\/1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nPolitics (pub. 5\/1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nFor H. (ca. 5\/1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nRevolutionary Diary of an Anarchist (ca. 5\/1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nJournal Black Cats Black Jewels (summer 1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nGold Songs for Jimi Hendrix (ca. summer 1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nBreaking Up (ca. summer 1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\n[Letters to Bernadette Mayer] (summer-fall 1972) \u2013 Kathy Acker
\nHomage to LeRoi Jones (fall 1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\n[Letter to Bernadette Mayer] (ca. fall 1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nEntrance into dwelling in paradise (fall 1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\n[Exercises] (fall 1972) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nStripper Disintegration (2-3\/1973) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nSection from Diary (3\/1973) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\n[Letter to Bernadette Mayer] (6\u2009\/\u20092?\u2009\/\u20091973) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nThe beginning of the Thesmophoriazusae (7-9\/1973) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nPart I of Breaking Through Memories into Desire (11\u200a\/\u200a1973) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nPart II [of Breaking Through Memories\u2026] (ca. 1\u200a\/\u200a1974) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nConversations (1\/1974) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\nTalking as Music (2\/1974) \u2014 Peter Gordon
\nFrom Part III of Breaking Through Memories\u2026 (2-3\u200a\/\u200a1974) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\n[Letters to Alan Sondheim] (2-3\u200a\/\u200a1974) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\n[Letter to Bernadette Mayer] (3\u200a\/\u200a3\u200a\/\u200a1974) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\n[Untitled Tape] (3\/1974) \u2014 Kathy Acker & Alan Sondheim
\n[About the Untitled Tape] (ca. 3\/1974) \u2014 Emily Cheng
\n[Untitled Tape 2] (ca. 3\/1974) \u2014 Kathy Acker & Alan Sondheim
\nVarious Memory Experiments, I (4\/1974) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\n[Letter to Bernadette Mayer] (4-7\u200a\/\u200a1974) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\n[Postcard to Kathy Acker] (7\/24\/1974) \u2014 Alan Sondheim
\n[Letters to Bernadette Mayer] (10\u200a\/\u200a1974-10\u200a\/\u200a1975) \u2014 Kathy Acker
\n[Songs] (1974-1975) \u2014 Jill Kroesen
\n[Flyer for the Whitney Museum] (11\/1976) \u2014 Kathy Acker & Alan Sondheim<\/p>\n

About the \u201cBlue Tape\u201d (2012) \u2014 Alan Sondheim
\n[About the Untitled Tape 1] (2018) \u2014 Emily Cheng
\n14th Street studio and Fun City (2019) \u2014 Justin Gajoux
\nKathy Acker and Sex Work in the Section from Diary (2019) \u2014 Justin Gajoux
\nPorno-graphing Actions of the \u201cBlue Tape\u201d (2019) \u2014 Anna Maria Pinaka
\nAfterword \u2014 Matias Viegener
\nPages: 656
\nLanguage: English.<\/p>\n

First critical edition of Kathy Acker\u2019s unpublished early writings from (1969-1976). Comprises almost all the typescripts from that period present in the Kathy Acker\u2019s archives.
\nFeatures also the transcription and presentation of Acker\u2019s two 1974 experimental videos.
\nEditor: Justin Gajoux.
\nCritical notes: Justin Gajoux & Claire Finch.
\nAlso with texts of: Alan Sondheim, Emily Cheng, Jill Kroesen, Peter Gordon, Claire Finch, Anna Maria Pinaka, Matias Viegener, Justin Gajoux.
\nArtwork: Satarina Cantos.
\nIsbn: 979-10-97450-03-8.<\/p>\n

Print run: 500 numbered copies. Offset printed, on paper Munken Print White 80g and Arjowiggins Popset 240g; signatures sewn, cold glue.<\/p>\n

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