Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)

Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992
Japanese edition
Translated by Sachie Watanabe
Hardcover with dust jacket
263 pp.

Japanese edition of Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School, published by Hakusuisha in 1992.

Acker’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.

Inside, 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.

The 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.

Condition: Very good. Light wear to dust jacket, minor edge wear and handling marks consistent with age. Interior clean.

Original period item.