{"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. Interior clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hakusuisha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53300341997906,"sku":"ACKER-BLOODGUTS-JP-1992","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Acker_-Kathy.-Japanese-edition_-Blood-and-Guts-in-high-school--cover.jpg?v=1777319662","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/kathy-acker-blood-and-guts-in-high-school-japanese-1992","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}