Kathy Acker

**Kathy Acker** (bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni April 18, 1947,ka o dunia biɛhigu daa naai yuuni November 30, 1997) O daa nyɛla sasabira, yɛltɔɣ'taɣamalisi lana, diɛma , karimgbaai sabira,kpɛrikpɛrita,ni ŋan pahipahi, ka sokam mi o sabbu yela that din tooi nyɛ sabiri gahinda kamani bihi ban na yiɣisirina nahingu yɛltɔɣa, bihi zaŋ doni, bala, nira biɛhigu, ni ŋan pahi.O sabbu daa kuli dolila nimmohi ni zaɣ'ŋmahi.O daa wuhi o sabbu maa ka di nyɛla din pun bɛ biɛhigu puuni, din nyɛ roman European din daa pun bɛini n nyɛ kali.o sabbu nima puuni,o laɣimdila biɛhigu nima, yaa, paɣ ni doo ni zabazaba.

## Piligu
Acker ko ka Donald mini Claire daa dɔɣi (nee Weill) Lehman, bɛ daa dɔɣi o la **Karen Lehman** New York tingbanni  yuuni 1947, amaa  Library of Congress daa ti o la dɔɣim yuuni 1948, ka ban maani sabira  *Encyclopædia Britannica* mi ti o dɔɣim yuuni April 18, 1948, New York, New York, U.S. O daa kpila November 30, 1997, Tijuana yiŋa, Mexico.  *The New York Times*, daa sabi wuhi shahira kamani yuuni 1944.

O niriba daa nyɛla mali arizichi, assimilated German-Jewish bɛihigu shɛli din daa nyɛ kaya ni taɣada amaa ka pa ni  adiini dini. O yab'paɣa, Florence Weill, daa nyɛla Austria nira ŋun daa di o yidana nu'suriti malibu daabiligu fali. Acker yab'paɣa ni o yab'doo daa chanŋ ya hali n ti paai Alsace-Lorraine prior ni dunia tɔbu piligu, bɛ daa chaŋya hali n ti paai  Paris ni United States. Lahabali wuhiya, ni Acker, ni o yaannima maa daa chaŋ "first generation French-German Jews" ban yaannima daa ʒini Pale bɔhisi din daa yina o mini magazine *Tattoo Jew* *sunsuuni*, Acker daa yɛliya ni Judaism daa diini "pa shɛli n ti ma, N bi zɔri ka chɛri li, di kuli pa shɛli n tima" ka wuhi ni o niriba "high-German Jews"ban daa zaŋ Kali n tuhiri Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews. (" bɛ daa wub'simami ni n zɔmi ka che Polish Jews.")

Bɛ daa wubsila Acker   Sutton Place fɔŋ din daa booni Manhattan's prosperous Upper East yaɣili ŋo. O ba Donald Lehman zɔmi ka che o niriba zaa pɔi ka bɛ naan yi dɔɣi Acker. O mini o ma biɛhigu puuni, hali ka o ti zooi daa bi za dede dama Acker daa lihimi ka o bɛ nya yurilim ni laamba nyaɣisim. O ma daa ti labi n kuli doo, ŋuna n daa nyɛ Albert Alexander, ŋun ba yuli daa booni Kathy, née Karen, hali sasabira maa daa wuhiya ni o ma ni daa labi kuli Alexander daa pala o daa bɔrila doo kundi hali. Kathy daa mali tizobila, O ma ni o ni daa kuli do so maa bia o yuli n daa booni Wendy, amaa bɛ daa dii bɛ miriti taba saha shɛli Acker ni daa yen kpi, o daa bo nyaɣisim n niŋ bɛ sunsuuni, kamani niriba ni daa bɔri li shɛm yuuni 1978, o ma Claire Alexander, daa kula o maŋa, ka pun kurigi gba, Acker daa bɔri ni o gbaai o ba, amaa ka daa chɛ o vihigu o ni daa baŋ ni o ba zɔmi o ni daa ku so pɔi ka bɛ naan yi tahi o yinyahi ashibiti ni, o daa niŋ chira ayɔbu dinni pɔi ka tingbani maa ti che o taali.

Acker daa chaŋla Lenox Shikuru, ʒiŋgamazuɣu shikuru n nyɛli n ti paɣiba m be  Upper East polo ŋo. O ni daa naai Brandeis University, o faa karim viɛnyɛla ka "di daa che ka o kɔŋ bɛnyɛri shɛŋa, orgies chandi nima theatre kids ni daa zaŋna." Yuuni 1966, o daa kuli  Robert Acker, ka daa dii n kpuɣi o ba yuli maa. Robert Acker daa nyɛla  lower-middle-class Polish-Jewish immigrants. O ma mini o ba ŋun maa daa kuli malila tahima ni o kuli ariziki lanaa, bɛ daa bi tiɛhiri ni o ni kuli Acker ka tooi ʒini n yuui.  O suhu daa kpe novili nima sabbu  pɔi ka o mini Robert naan yi labi California n ti chaŋ University din be California, San Diego, shɛli polo David Antin, Eleanor Antin, ni Jerome Rothenberg daa nyɛ o karimba nima. O daa nya o  bachelor's degree yuuni 1968. Pɔi ka o naan yi labi New York, o daa niŋla Yuma ayi City College New York puuni n bɔhim Classics, o daa nyɛla ŋun kuli jendi Greek. O daa bɛ nya graduate degree. O saha maa New York tingbanni, amaa bɛ daa kpuɣi o tuma ka o nyɛ file clerk, secretary, stripper, ni porn performer.

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**Kathy Acker** ( nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so silimiingoli April bɛɣu pinaanii dali, yuuni 1947 – ka o kani silimiingoli  November bɛɣu pihita dali, yuuni 1997) o nyɛla ŋun daa nyɛ tingbani yuli booni America sasabiri ŋun sairi ; salinwaɣila,  yɛltɔɣa taɣimalisi, kpɛrigu,  washiika nima n-ti pahi ŋun diɛmdi akpaaku zuɣu diɛma . O nyɛla bɛ ni mi so ka o sabbu nim nyɛ din mɛri tamdi bɛ ni bɔli shɛli ni idiosyncratic n ti pahi  transgressive sabbu nim din jendi yɛl'kpani maŋa kamani ; bilimni wahala, laɣimbu laɣimbu paɣa mini doo polo, balli,  nti pahi o ni nyɛ so. 

## Biography
### Early life
Biso konko Donald  mini Claire (nee Weill)  Lehman ni dɔɣi , Acker nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so  **Karen Lehman** tingbani din be  New York City ni yuuni  1947.

## Bibliography

### Novels, stories
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* *Politics* (yuuni 1972; excerpts published in *Hannibal Lecter, My Father* (yuuni 1991); full text published in *Kathy Acker (yuuni 1971 hali ni yuuni 1975)* (2019)
* *The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the United States* (pub. Yuuni 2002, from manuscript yuuni 1972)
* *Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective* (pub. Yuuni 2002, from manuscript Yuuni 1973)
* *Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula By the Black Tarantula* (yuuni 1973)
* *I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining* (yuuni 1974)
* *Haiti: A Trip to the Voodoo Doctor* (*Travelers Digest* Issue 1, Volume 1, yuuni 1977; later published in *Kathy Goes to Haiti*)
* *Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec* (yuuni 1978)
* *Florida* (yuuni 1978)
* *Kathy Goes to Haiti* (yuuni 1978)
* *The Seattle Book: For Randy and Heather* (yuuni 1980, with illustrations)
* *The Persian Poems by Janey Smith* (*Travelers Digest* Issue 2, Volume 1, ed. Jeff Goldberg, yuuni 1980; poems from *Blood and Guts in High School*, with drawings by Robert Kushner, yuuni 1980)
* *N.Y.C. in yuuni 1979* (yuuni 1981)
* *Hello, My Name Is Erica Jong* (yuuni 1982; also available in *Blood and Guts in High School*)
* *Translations of the Diaries of Laure the Schoolgirl* (yuuni 1983)
* *Implosion* (yuuni 1983; also available in *My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini*)
* *Great Expectations* (yuuni 1983)
* *Algeria: A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works* (yuuni 1984)
* *My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini* (yuuni 1984)
* *Blood and Guts in High School* (yuuni 1984)
* *Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream* (yuuni 1986)
* *Lust: A Sailor's Slight Identity* (yuuni 1987, available in *Hannibal Lecter, My Father*)
* *Literal Madness: Three Novels* (Reprinted yuuni 1988; contains *Kathy Goes to Haiti*, *My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini*, *Florida*)
* *Young Lust* (yuuni 1988; contains *Kathy Goes to Haiti*, *The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec*, and *Florida*)
* *Empire of the Senseless* (yuuni 1988)
* *In Memoriam to Identity* (yuuni 1990)
* *Hannibal Lecter, My Father* (yuuni 1991)
* *Portrait of an Eye* (yuuni 1992, includes early novels *Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula By the Black Tarantula* (yuuni 1973); *I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining* (yuuni 1974); *Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec* (yuuni 1978)
* *My Mother: Demonology* (yuuni 1994)
* *Pussycat Fever* (with Diane Dimassa and Freddie Baer, illustrators, yuuni 1995)
* *Pussy, King of the Pirates* (yuuni 1996)
* *Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels* (Reprinted yuuni 1998)
* *Eurydice in the Underworld* (yuuni 1998)
* *Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker* (yuuni 2002)
* *Kathy Acker (yuuni 1971 hali ni yuuni 1975)* (2019, Éditions Ismael, 656 pgs.), ed. Justin Gajoux and Claire Finch, critical edition of unpublished early writings from yuuni 1971 hali ni yuuni  1975

Some of the contents from * *Kathy Acker (yuuni 1971 hali ni yuuni 1975)* (yuuni 2019, Éditions Ismael, 656 pgs.), ed. Justin Gajoux and Claire Finch, critical edition of unpublished early writings from yuuni 1971 hali ni yuuni  1975

* *The Golden Woman* (poem, yuuni 1969 *ni hali ni yuuni* 1970)
* *Section from DIARY* (1–2, 1971)
* *Portraits* (7, 1971)
* *Portraits and Visions* (summer yuuni 1971)
* *Diary Warmcatfur* (1, 1972)
* *Politics* (yuuni 1972, full text)
* *For H.* (Yuuni 1972)
* *Revolutionary Diary of an Anarchist* (yuuni 1972)
* *Journal Black Cats Black Jewels* (summer yuuni 1972)
* *Gold Songs for Jimi Hendrix* (yuuni 1972)
* *Breaking Up* (summer yuuni 1972)
* *[Letter to Berndadette Mayer]* (fall yuuni 1972)
* *Entrance into Dwelling in Paradise* (poems, fall Yuuni 1972)
* *[Exercises]* (fall Yuuni 1972)
* *Stripper Disintergration* (2–3, 1973)
* *Section from Diary* (3, 1973)
* *[Letter to Bernadette Mayer]* (yuuni 1973)
* *The Beginning of the Thesmophoriazusae* (7–9, 1973)
* *Part I of Breaking Through Memories into Desire* (11, 1973)
* *Part II [of Breaking Through Memories...]* (1, 1974)
* *Conversations* (1, 1974)
* *[Letters to Alan Sondheim]* (2–3, 1974)
* *[Letter to Bernadette Mayer]* (3/3/1974)

### YELYƆƔ'TAƔIMALISI NIMA
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This is not a complete list.

This symbol # indicates published in *Kathy Acker (1971–1975)* (2019, Éditions Ismael, 656 pgs.), ed. Justin Gajoux and Claire Finch, critical edition of unpublished early writings from 1971 to 1975

* *The Golden Woman* (poem, 1969*–*1970) #
* *Journal Black Cats Black Jewels* (summer 1972) #
* *Gold Songs for Jimi Hendrix* (1972) #
* *Part I of Breaking Through Memories into Desire* (11, 1973) #
* *Part II [of Breaking Through Memories...]* (1, 1974) #
* *Baby don't give baby don't get* (from the novel *Florida*)
* *Homage to Leroi Jones* (poems, pub. 2015 by Lost and Found: The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative, from manuscript 1972)

Discussion/reading of two poems from the novel *Blood and Guts in High School*

### Stage TUMA
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* *Desire* (*Bomb* 3, spring 1982)
* *Lulu Unchained* (drama, 1985, first performed at ICA; available in the novel *Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream*)
* *The Birth of the Poet* (drama, 1981; performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1985, directed by Richard Foreman; published in *Eurydice in the Underworld*; also in *Wordplays 5: An Anthology of New American Drama*, 1987)
* *Requiem* (drama, 1997; published in *Eurydice in the Underworld*)

### Screenplay
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* *Variety* (screenplay, 1985, directed by Bette Gordon; unpublished)O YILA NIMA
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* *Pussy* (1994, produced by CodeX; contains two sections, *O and Ange* and *Pussy, King of the Pirates: Her Story*)
* *The Stabbing Hand* (1995) – spoken-word guest appearance on alternate mix of song by Oxbow, included on reissues of album *Let Me Be a Woman*
* *Pussy, King of the Pirates* (1997, Touch and Go Records) – Acker's operetta, performed and recorded by the Mekons with Kathy Acker
* *Redoing Childhood* (2000) spoken-word recording, KRS 349.

### Essays (periodicals, book reviews, movie reviews, art reviews, speeches, and other texts)
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This is not a complete list. The symbols ^^ indicate it's available at Duke University's collection of Kathy Acker's papers. The symbol # indicates the essay is included in the Kathy Acker collection *Bodies of Work: Essays* (London: Serpent's Tail, 1997).

* *Notes on Writing from the Life of Baudelaire* (1979^^)
* *New York City 1983* (from *Marcus Leatherdale: His photographs – a book in a series on people and years*, with Christian Michelides, published by Wien, Molotov, 1983)
* *Realism for the Cause of Future Revolution* (from *Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation*, 1984#)
* *Collette* (1985#)
* *An Actual Institution of Art* (1986^^)
* Introduction to collection *Young Lust* (1988)
* Introduction to *Boxcar Bertha* (1988#)
* *A Few Notes on Two of my Books* (from *Review of Contemporary Fiction*, vol 9, no. 3, Fall 1989#)
* *Blue Valentine* (1989^^)
* *Review of Scandal for Weiner* (1989^^)
* *Low: Good and Evil in the Work of Nayland Blake* (1990) A selection is available in the Kathy Acker collection *Body of Works: Essays*.
* *The World According to Peter Greenway* (from *The Village Voice*, volume 35, April 17, 1990#)
* *In the Underworld* (1990^^)
* *William Burroughs' Realism* (1990)
* *From Counter-Culture to Culture, But Here's no Culture/Fuck Ecology and the Death of Communism/The Meaning of the 80s* (1990^^)
* *New York City 25/12/89-31/12/89 at the Edge of the New* (1990^^)
* *The Language of Sex The Sex of Language* (1990)
* *Critical Languages* (1990#)
* *Dead Doll Humility* (1990).
* *The Meaning of the Eighties* (from *The Village Voice*, volume 35, January 2, 1990#)
* *Bodybuilding* (1991)
* *The War at Home: Bonfire of the Vanities by Brian de Palma* (1991^^)
* *Red Wings: Concerning Richard Prince's "Spiritual America"* (from *Parkett*, 1992#)
* *Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body* (from *The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw Bodies*, 1993#)
* *Reading the Lack of the Body: The Writing of the Marquis de Sade* (from *The Divine Sade*, 1994#)
* *After the End of the Art World* (1994^^)
* *Statements on the Nature of Musical Comedy* (1994^^)
* *Seeing Gender* (from *Critical Quarterly*, 1995#)
* *Running through the World: On the Art of Kiki Smith* (1995^^)
* *Mirror: Two Works of Art* (1995^^)
* *Moving Into Wonder* (An introduction to *Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists*, 1995#)
* Unidentified contribution to *Dust: Essays* (1995)
* *Writing, Identity, and Copyright in the Net Age* (from *MMLA*, volume 28, number 1, Spring 1995#)
* *Samuel Delaney: Orpheus* (1996^^)
* *On Delany the Magiian* (Foreword to *Trouble on Triton*, 1996#)
* *The Future* (1997#)
* *The Gift of the Disease* (*The Guardian*, January 18, 1997)
* *Bruce Willis and Me* (1997^^)
* *Bodies of Work: Essays* (1997). Includes a preface. Any essay with symbol # indicates it is included in this collection.
* *Acker: Articles from The New Statesman 1989–1991* (2007, Amandla Publishing)
* *Russian Constructivism* (from *Blasted Allegories*) (date unknown#)
* Notes on a title page of Herman Melville's *White Jacket* (Undated)
* *Some American Cities* (from *Marxism Today*) (date unknown#)
* *Postmoderism* (undated #)
* *About Robert Mapplethorpe* (undated^^)
* *Allen Ginsberg: A Personal Portrait* (undated^^)
* *A Bunch of Propositions about the Hernandez Brothers* (undated^^)
* *On Twin Peaks* (undated^^)
* *Women who have Big Muscles* (undated^^)
* *The End of Poetry* (undated^^)
* *Eugenie De Franval* (undated^^)
* *Fabre's Work or Opera* (undated^^)
* Unidentified essay, part of the Iain Sinclair inventory.

Book reviews – typescripts of sixteen different reviews from 1985 to 1989 – available at Duke University's collection of Kathy Acker papers.

### BƆHISI MINI TUNTUMDIBA
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Incomplete list:

* Interview with Barry Alpert (Mitali Restaurant, pub. in *Only Paper Today*, March 30, 1976) Published in *The Last Interview*.
* "Kathy Acker by Mark Margill" (pub. in *BOMB* Magazine, July 1, 1983)
* Informal Interview (with R.J. Ellish, Carolyn Bird, Dawn Curwen, Ian Mancor, Val Ogden, and Charles Patrick, April 23, 1986) Published in *The Last Interview*.
* Kathy Acker at the ICA (Part of the Anthony Rolland Collection of Films and Art, Writers in Conversation, 1986)
* *A Conversation with Kathy Acker* (with Ellen G. Friedman, Gramercy Park Hotel, NYC, 1 February 1988) Pub. in *Review of Contemporary Fiction* 9, No. 3 (Fall 1989): 12–22.
* Conversations with Dean Kulpers (Gramercy Park Hotel Bar, NYC, July 2, 1988). Published in *The Last Interview*.
* *Devoured by Myths: An Interview with Sylvere Lotringer* (New York, Oct 1989 – May 1990, published in *Hannibal Lecter My Father*) The unexpurgated transcript was published in *The Last Interview*.
* "An interview with Kathy Acker" (with Larry McCaffery, pub. in *Mississippi Review* 20, Nos. 1–2 (1991): 83–97).
* *The On Our Backs Interview: Kathy Acker* (with Lisa Palac, May/June 1991). Published in *The Last Interview*.
* *Kathy Acker Interviewed by Rebecca Deaton* (pub. in *Textual Practice* 6, No. 2 (Summer 1992): 271–82.
* *Body Building* (with Laurence A. Rikels, pub. in *Artforum*, February 1994). Published in *The Last Interview*.
* *Can't: Walk and chew gum* (with Richard Kadrey, from Covert Culture series, pub. in *Hotwired* online, 13 September 1995)
* *Kathy Acker* (in conversation with Beth Jackson, pub. in *eyeline*, Autumn/Winter 1996). Published in *The Last Interview*.
* Strange Gaze interview with Anton Corbijn (1996, source unknown, available at Duke University's collection of Kathy Acker's papers)
* *All Girls Together: Kathy Acker Interviews the Spice Girls* (pub. *The Guardian*, 1997) Published in *The Last Interview*.
* *The Last Interview* (with Kesia Boddy, 1997) Published in *The Last Interview*.
* *Candle in the Wind* (interviewed by Ruben Reyes, *Phsycus Room*, Issue 3, Summer 1998)
* *Kathy Acker* (with Andrea Juno and V. Vale, pub. in *Angry Women* (RE/Search, 1991: June Books, 1999). Published in *The Last Interview*.
* *Pussy and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance or how to be a pirate on-line and channel your energies so as to remember your dreams...* (interviewed by Rosie X, date/magazine unknown)
* interview with Karl Schieder (July 25, 1991, The Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, pub. in ilato.org, pub date unknown)
* *A Conversation with Kathy Acker* (interviewed by Benjamin Bratton (*Speed*), pub. in *Apparatus and Memory*, date unknown)
* Kathy Acker interviews William S. Burroughs (date unknown)

### O MINI BAN DAA TIMDA
Incomplete list:

* *Spread Open*, with artist Paul Buck. Incorporates correspondence between Kathy Acker ni Buck daa labi na tuuli  80s. Daa zaŋ wuhi salo yuuni  2005 , Dis Voir n daa zaŋli wuhisalo.
* *I'm Very Into You*. Acker's  buku o daa emaili li n ti omini ban daa tumda  media theorist McKenzie Wark, Matias Viegener n daa malili n sabili ŋun daa nyɛ Kathy Acker kpɛma.

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