Author Kathy Acker (née Karen Lehman) is the epitome of punk philosophy made corporeal. With a powerfully visceral style of writing and an appropriation of the 'cut-up' technique of William S. Burroughs, alongside the sadism of Jean Genet, once she published Blood and Guts in High School in 1984 she found herself celebrated as a controversial pioneer of avant-garde literature. However, she was never one to conform to the expectations placed upon her — either as a woman (she…
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