"I couldn't hear any of that political music shit..."

From Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School :


   "The music made it so you couldn't hear the words and the music itself was so loud music couldn't be heard
you weren't hearing
this is beyond hearing
you is just vibrations so there's no difference between self and music."

Acker's novel, published in 1978, covers all topics from identity to Jean Genet through transgressive expressions by way of self-reflexive text, appropriation, drawing, and literary assemblage.  Acker "studied under the second generation of black mountain poets" Black Mountain Poets, who descended from the first generation including poet Denise Levertov. Based in New York during the 70s and heralded as a "punk poet", Acker later went on to teach at SFAI, and ultimately passed away in 1997 due to cancer.

C.: Lance Olsen

"Who was Kathy Acker?", answers poet Daphne Gottlieb
FF to 4:53 :::


In addition to being a poet, Acker apparently had a really bad ass clothing collection: http://collectingseminar.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/kathy-ackers-clothes/