Homage to LeRoi Jones and other early works /
"Homage to Leroi Jones & Other Early Works presents the unpublished "exercises," correspondence, and diary excerpts from underground feminist writer Kathy Acker.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-wor...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York,
2015.
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| Series: | Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ;
ser. 5, no. 1. |
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| Summary: | "Homage to Leroi Jones & Other Early Works presents the unpublished "exercises," correspondence, and diary excerpts from underground feminist writer Kathy Acker.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). |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Area Studies/Africana copy forms part of the Imamu Amiri Baraka Collection in the Africana Section of the Area Studies Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 4 unnumbered pages, 60 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780988894549 0988894548 9780988894525 0988894521 |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- New York -- New York. |