Different ways to novelling

KathyAcker's experience working in film, graphics and body-art gave her a distinctly non-literary approach to writing.

Her novels use techniques taken from the visual arts, borrowing heavily from the modernist armoury as the narrative is disturbed with drawings, poems, collage and factual material. An unashamed plagiarist, Acker was content to cut and paste entire sections from others' work, not least Jean Genet, who ends up becoming a central character in Blood and Guts.

For Michael Bracewell she "presented herself as part rebel bohemian avant-gardiste, part NYC downtown punk, and part venerable literary grande dame." For Robert Lort, she was "always out on her own, a strange girl thrown towards the threshold of language and thought." A decade after her untimely death from cancer in 1997 we can see her influence in the work of a number of younger - and noticeably, male - writers, like Salvador Plascencia, Travis Jeppesen and Noah Cicero.
Reviewed by even the most august outlets - something unimaginable for a comparable author working today - Acker was a genuine starlet of 1980s literary culture. (A.Stevens)

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