After kathy acker, paperback/chris kraus

Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon .

scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore- The late Kathy Ackers legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself.

In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer, and as a member of the artistic communities from which she emerged.

At once forensic and intimate, After Kathy Ackertraces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody.

Using exhaustive archival research and ongoing conversations with mutual colleagues and friends, Kraus charts Ackers movement through some of the late 20th centurys most significant artistic enterprises.