Blood and Guts in High School (Plus Two) by Kathy Acker

Born in 1948, avant-garde novelist Kathy Acker hung out in New York with the FLUXUS group and underground filmmakers in the '60s. At Brandies University she studied with Herbert Marcuse, following him to UC San Diego. Back in New York she studied with Jerome Rothenberg and hung out in the early punk scene while writing art criticism, book reviews and prose pieces. Her libretto, The Birth of a Poet, wad produced as an opera at the Brooklyn Academy of music. 

Throughout the following decades Kathy Acker wrote thirteen novels, whose sexually explicit language, multiple personas, plagiarism and sheer linguistic inventiveness embodied a subversive sensibility. Her novels were described as everything from post-punk porn to post-punk feminism, fist person narratives which combine detailed eroticism with detailed politics and what Acker called 'pop content'.

Here we have a copy of her novel Blood and Guts in High School which also includes two more short stories Great Expectations and My Death, My Life, Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Cover Illustration by Sue Coe

Published by Picador, 1984

Condition: Some annotations throughout and on the first page.