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By Kathy Acker, William S. Burroughs, Langston Hughes and Jean Senac

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9780988894549, titled "Lost & Found: The Cuny Poetics Document Initiative, Series V" | Center for the Humanities, June 23, 2015, cover price $30.00

When Addressing a Mass: Prepare Yourself for Public Speaking

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Product Description: Public speaking is very difficult for many people . They become stressed out while speaking even to a handful of people. There are some people who stammers and becomes cold and sweat while talking to a person unknown even one is to one basis...read more

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9781505449310 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 25, 2014, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: Public speaking is very difficult for many people .

El Imperio de los Sinsentidos / The Empire of the Nonsense

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Product Description: A psychological dystopian tale set in the present and near future, this controversial book written in a stream-of-consciousness style with sexually explicit prose features mutants and cyborgs in a society where sadomasochism and random violence are the norm...read more

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9788493948924 | Independent Pub Group, March 1, 2012, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A psychological dystopian tale set in the present and near future, this controversial book written in a stream-of-consciousness style with sexually explicit prose features mutants and cyborgs in a society where sadomasochism and random violence are the norm.

Bodies of Work: Essays

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From art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction and the city, this work reflects and challenges the times in which we live. It offers original views on subjects such as diverse as the films of Peter Greenaway, the paintings of Goya, the writings of Marquis de Sade and copyright in the age of the Internet.

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9781852424855 | New edition (Serpents Tail, February 1, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: From art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction and the city, this work reflects and challenges the times in which we live.

9781852424251 | Serpents Tail, September 1, 1997, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a period when Acker was writing Great Expectations and trying to leave America for London, Buck confronts issues of appropriation, sampling, and plagiarism, relevant then and now...read more

By Kathy Acker, Paul Buck, John E. Cussans and Rebecca Stevens

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9782914563178 | Dis Voir Editions, January 15, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker.

Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the U.S

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9780802139207 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $14.00

Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker

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By Amy Acker (editor), Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (editor) and Jeanette Winterson (introduced by)

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9780802139214 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $15.00

Artspace Is/Artspace Was

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Product Description: An irreverent document of Artspace's 15-year commitment to exhibitions, publications, performances, videos and film, this book challenges the notion of what an organization for and about artists can be at the dawn of the 21st century...read more

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9781891273025 | Artspace Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An irreverent document of Artspace's 15-year commitment to exhibitions, publications, performances, videos and film, this book challenges the notion of what an organization for and about artists can be at the dawn of the 21st century.

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9781899598526 | Codex Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $18.95

In Memoriam to Identity

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9780802111708 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, June 1, 1990), cover price $19.95

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9780802135797 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1998), cover price $16.00

9780679738428 | Reprint edition (Pantheon Books, February 1, 1992), cover price $14.00

Spectacular Optical

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Product Description: SPECTACULAR OPTICAL is a book published by TRANS> arts.cultures.media to accompany the exhibition bt the same name held at Thread Waxing Space. The book takes as a point of departure the cultural fascination with violence, atrocity, mutation and the ways that they are depicted (some would say gentrified) as entertainment...read more

By Kathy Acker, Sandra Antlo-Suarz (editor), Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Lia Gangitano, Michael Madore (editor), David Rimamelli, Amresh Sinha and Slavoj Zizek

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9781888209044 | Passim Inc, July 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: SPECTACULAR OPTICAL is a book published by TRANS> arts.

Eurydice in the Underworld

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This is an anthology of short fiction and other writings by Acker, including 'Politics', her debut work written at the age of 21, and 'The Translations of the Diaries of Laure the Schoolgirl', plus 'The Birth of a Poet', a play in three acts. It also features an interview with Acker.

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9781900850087 | New edition (Arcadia Books Ltd, January 3, 1998), cover price $17.70 | About this edition: This is an anthology of short fiction and other writings by Acker, including 'Politics', her debut work written at the age of 21, and 'The Translations of the Diaries of Laure the Schoolgirl', plus 'The Birth of a Poet', a play in three acts.

Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels - The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula, I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac - Imaging, the Adult Life Toulouse

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9780802135438 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $14.00

Pussy, King of the Pirates

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An erotic and dreamlike reinterpretation of 'Treasure Island' is told from a female perspective, featuring a crew of women on a wild adventure from an Alexandrian whorehouse to Pirate Island

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9780802115782 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A reinterpretation of Treasure Island is told from a girl's perspective, placing such colorful characters as O, Ange, Lulu, Pussycat, and Antigone on a wild adventure from an Alexandrian whorehouse to Pirate Island.

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9780802134844 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: An erotic and dreamlike reinterpretation of 'Treasure Island' is told from a female perspective, featuring a crew of women on a wild adventure from an Alexandrian whorehouse to Pirate Island

By Kathy Acker, William S. Burroughs, Simon Dwyer (editor), Charles Manson, Hubert Sedley and Colin Wilson

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9781871592221 | Revised edition (Creation Pub Group, September 1, 1996), cover price $19.95

Dust: A Creation Books Reader

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9781871592443 | Creation Pub Group, March 1, 1996, cover price $10.99

The Artist in Society: Rights, Roles & Responsibility

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By Kathy Acker (editor), Art Institute of Chicago Dept. of Museum Education (corporate author), Carol Becker and Ann Wiens (editor)

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9780964785502 | Reprint edition (New Art Examiner, September 1, 1995), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Book by Becker, Carol

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Product Description: "If one day, a bad girl named Dante met a mean dyke called Hieronymous Bosch, this is the book they'd make."âJenny Livingstone, director, Paris Burning."Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other" âThe New York Times Book ReviewKathy Acker holds a unique place among American novelists, as a writer who constantly pushes at the frontiers of modern fiction, with each new work advancing further into uncharted territory...read more

By Kathy Acker, Freddie Baer (illustrator) and Diane Dimassa (illustrator)

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9781873176634 | A K Pr Distribution, April 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: "If one day, a bad girl named Dante met a mean dyke called Hieronymous Bosch, this is the book they'd make.

My Mother: Demonology

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Laure, a woman torn apart by the conflicts between her sexuality and her feminism, embarks on a journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her childhood (view table of contents)

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9780679403494 | Pantheon Books, August 1, 1993, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Laure, a woman torn apart by the conflicts between her sexuality and her feminism, embarks on a journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her childhood

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9780802134035 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $13.50

Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels

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Product Description: This book is a replica of the original from the collections of The New York Public Library; it was produced from digital images created by The New York Public Library and its partners as part of their preservation efforts. To enhance your reading pleasure, the aging and scanning artifacts have been removed using patented page cleaning technology...read more

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9780679740230 | Pantheon Books, February 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This book is a replica of the original from the collections of The New York Public Library; it was produced from digital images created by The New York Public Library and its partners as part of their preservation efforts.

Hannibal Lecter, My Father

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9780936756684 | Semiotext, June 1, 1991, cover price $12.95

Great Expectations

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9780802131553 | Reissue edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1989), cover price $16.00

Empire of the Senseless

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9780802131799 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1989), cover price $15.00

Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti/My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini/Florida : Three Novels

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A dead man tries to solve the mystery of his murder, a woman discovers sexual obsession on a holiday trip, and a gangster terrorizes hotel guests

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9780802131560 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, July 1, 1989), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A dead man tries to solve the mystery of his murder, a woman discovers sexual obsession on a holiday trip, and a gangster terrorizes hotel guests

Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life, by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Florida

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A dead man tries to solve the mystery of his murder, a woman discovers sexual obsession on a holiday trip, and a gangster terrorizes hotel guests

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9780802100016 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, December 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A dead man tries to solve the mystery of his murder, a woman discovers sexual obsession on a holiday trip, and a gangster terrorizes hotel guests

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