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Baer’s collage work interrupts the surface further, keeping the book close to zine, pamphlet, and underground comic production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book does not resolve into a stable literary object. It behaves more like a portable fragment: handled, read, passed on, absorbed into Acker’s wider economy of self-mythology, plagiarism, sexuality, and breakdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Minor signs of wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53298655002962,"sku":"ACKER-PUSSYCAT-1995","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Acker_-Kathy.-Pussycat-Fever_-1995-1-cover.jpg?v=1777305162"},{"product_id":"kathy-acker-blood-and-guts-in-high-school-japanese-1992","title":"Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992\u003cbr\u003eJapanese edition\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Sachie Watanabe\u003cbr\u003eHardcover with dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e263 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJapanese edition of Kathy Acker’s \u003cem\u003eBlood and Guts in High School\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Hakusuisha in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcker’s text is carried into another language system: English title, Japanese title, blue printed surface, white jacket, translated body. The object does not simply reproduce the book; it relocates it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside, the instability of the original remains visible through translation, handwriting, repetition, and diagram. The photographed spread holds several languages at once: English, Japanese, Persian script, phonetic instruction, bodily vocabulary. The page becomes lesson, wound, and index.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition places Acker inside a different publishing context, where the work’s violence and fragmentation are retained but visually reordered. Translation becomes part of the object’s structure: not secondary, but material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light wear to dust jacket, minor edge wear and handling marks consistent with age. 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Interior pages combine narrative, diagram, letter, drawing, mistranslation, transcription, and appropriated material. The book does not settle into a single literary form. It distributes itself across available supports.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJaney appears less as a fixed character than as a point of passage: sexual, geographic, linguistic, institutional. The body is moved through systems. The text follows by breaking sequence, importing fragments, and refusing stable address.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs object, the book belongs to the moment when experimental writing, punk-adjacent publishing, feminist rupture, and visual interruption enter the paperback field. A mass-market form carrying a damaged, unstable structure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition: very good. 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