Neither a serial project nor a “big novel,” the book was composed from an assortment of fragments and outtakes written and saved since she moved to Solana Beach with Peter Gordon in 1973 and began writing prose. Until she sat down to compose the manuscript at the end of 1978, Acker never conceived Blood and Guts in High School as a continuous, stand-alone book. It’s a well-researched bio that revolves around her creative work… with enough discursive style to achieve some degree of Acker-ness.īelow then… an excerpt from Blood and Guts in High School Now we have Chris Kraus’s After Kathy Acker. Years later, I got to meet Acker at a MONDO 2000 event and we would quickly become close friends and (briefly… twice) lovers. Everything around it seemed dull by comparison. I first became aware of Kathy Acker when excerpts from Blood and Guts in High School appeared in the Canadian avant-garde magazine Impulse in the late 1970s. It was the first fictional work I’d read that was able to do what punk rock was doing. By Chris Kraus (from After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography)
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