A collection of early and not-so-early work by the mistress of
gut-level fiction-making. You can say I write stories with sex and
violence and therefore my writing isn't worth considering because
it uses content much less lots of content. Well, I tell you this:
'Prickly race, who know nothing except how to eat out your hearts
with envy, you don't eat cunt'... Edited by Sylvere Lotringer and
published in 1991, this handy, pocket-sized collection of some
early and not-so-early work by the mistress of gut-level
fiction-making, Hannibal Lecter, My Father gathers together Acker's
raw, brilliant, emotional and cerebral texts from 1970s, including
the self-published 'zines written under the nom-de-plume, The Black
Tarantula. This volume features, among others, the full text of
Acker's opera, The Birth of the Poet, produced at Brooklyn Academy
of Music in 1985, Algeria, 1979 and fragments of Politics, written
at the age of 21. Also included is the longest and definitive
interview Acker ever gave over two years: a chatty, intriguing and
delightfully self-deprecating conversation with Semiotext(e) editor
Sylvere Lotringer-which is trippy enough in itself as Lotringer,
besides being a real person, has appeared as a character in Acker's
fiction. And last, but not least, is the full transcript of the
decision reached by West Germany's Federal Inspection Office for
Publications Harmful to Minors in which Acker's work was judged to
be "not only youth-threatening but also dangerous to adults," and
subsequently banned. Acker is the sort of the writer that should be
read first at 16, so that you can spend the rest of your life
trying to figure her out; she confuses, infuriates, perplexes and
then all of a sudden the writing seems to be in your bloodstream,
like some kind of benign virus. She's definitely not for the easily
offended-but then, there are worse things in life than being
offended. Such as the things that Acker writes about...
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