Pussy, King of the Pirates
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.49 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802115780 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Once again displaying her penchant-and talent-for scavenging extant texts, Acker (My Mother: Demonology) exploits Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Pauline Reage's The Story of O, among other sources, fusing the carnal, the cerebral and the surreal into a fantastical tale. The story spans centuries and continents as it chronicles the adventures of O and Ange, whores who retire from the trade and hire a band of girl-pirates to help them find buried treasure. The first, "O and Ange," recounts the t
"Acker pushes language to the tension point, explodes and reclaims it".-- Boston Sunday Herald.. A loose reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, Acker's radical interpretation is a masterfully directed, wild trek through real and imagined history, from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria through an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be sometime in the future
"Brilliant!" according to J. Paul. Kathy Acker is probably one of the most talented authors of the latter half of the 20th century. This album is an excellent expose for her book of the same title.Acker and the Mekons do an excellent job of finding different styles of music to fit with the different moods of the book. Acker's literature is reknowned for its avant-garde method of "plagiarism" (she blatantly steals from other authors and restructures. joshua said the best Acker. Kathy Acker is, in my opinion, the best avant-garde author who ever existed, and "Pussy King of Pirates" is her greatest work--topping even "Empire of the Senseless"--which is too bad that it was her last. following the exploits of girls seeking treasure, Pirate girls, and surreal avatars of writers like Antonin Artaud, "Pussy King of Pirates" goes farther than Acker has ever gone with the conventions of literatur. "Journey of a Pirate Girl" according to A Customer. In order to truly understand any construct or idea , one must commit a type of murder.To claim the title of Woman or American , it becomes necessary to deconstruct exactly what these words mean. What does love or sex or female break down into ? By using her own singular language , Acker swallows her Self whole , then spits it back out , thus embarking on a journey towards some kind of understanding or possibility.