Research Catalog

Title

Homage to LeRoi Jones and other early works / Kathy Acker ; Gabrielle Kappes, editor.

Author

Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997

Publication

• New York : Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2015.
• ©2015

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Kappes, Gabrielle
• Alcalay, Ammiel
• Mangum, Megan
• City University of New York. Center for the Humanities publisher.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

4 unnumbered pages, 60 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Homage to Leroi Jones & Other Early Works presents the unpublished “exercises,” correspondence, and diary excerpts from underground feminist writer Kathy Acker. From her archived papers, spanning the years 1971-1974, are four collections of “exercises” or prose-poem-word-plays, drawn from dream journals that trace Acker’s political, aesthetic, and methodological lineage to Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka. The selected correspondence from Acker to poet and theorist Alan Sondheim documents their emergent personal and professional relationship and the creative birth of their video art project Blue Tapes. It is is accompanied by one Acker’s earliest extant pieces: a 1971 diary from the time she worked at a Times Square strip club. These early experiments are what Acker calls her “attempt to map at that time my total present consciousness.” The selection provides a raw, explicit, and intimate gaze into Acker’s creative process."--Publisher's website (viewed 05/06/2015).

Series Statement

Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 5, number 1, Spring 2015

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections
• Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ser. 5, no. 1.
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Alternative Title

Works.

Subjects

• Chapbooks > New York (State) > New York > 2015
• Chapbooks, American > 21st century
• Poets, American > 20th century
• Sondheim, Alan > Criticism and interpretation
• Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 > Influence
• Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 > Criticism and interpretation
• Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997

Genre/Form

• Chapbooks, American – 21st century.
• Chapbooks – New York (State) – New York – 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Homage to Kathy Acker: an introduction / Gabrielle Kappes ; Exercises : Homage to LeRoi Jones -- Journal black cats black jewels -- Entrance into dwelling in paradise (excerpts) -- Murderers criminals join sunlight (excerpts) / Kathy Acker -- "Dear Alan": selected correspondence from Kathy Acker to Alan Sondheim -- Biographical notes.

ISBN

• 9780988894549 (series)
• 9780988894525

OCLC

• 908659924
• SCSB-11247033

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library