{"product_id":"kathy-acker-hello-im-erica-jong-contact-ii-publications-1982","title":"Kathy Acker — Hello, I’m Erica Jong, Contact II Publications, New York, 1982","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition chapbook \/ artist book. Contact II Publications, New York, 1982. [20] pp., stapled black wrappers. Approx. 17.9 × 21.5 cm \/ 7 × 8.5 in. Original artwork by Michael McClard. Printed by Cambrick Graphic Arts, NYC. ISBN 0-936356-09-2.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good vintage condition; rubbing and surface wear to black wrappers, light edge and corner wear, minor creasing, age toning to pages. Interior presents well, with binding intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Acker’s 1982 prose-poem chapbook, published by Contact II Publications in New York, with original artwork by Michael McClard. The title takes Erica Jong — already a public literary figure through \u003cem\u003eFear of Flying\u003c\/em\u003e — and turns the name into a borrowed voice, mask, and false point of entry. Acker’s text moves through impersonation, address, confession, refusal, and theft. The book appears small and almost private, but its operation is public: a name is taken from literary culture and reissued through downtown small-press circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rear cover keeps the first economy visible: $3.00, ISBN, Contact II’s Bowling Green address. Not just bibliographic detail, but distribution data. A cheap stapled book becomes the vehicle for appropriation, literary attack, and self-invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcker’s early-1980s work sits between punk literature, feminist disturbance, and postmodern appropriation. Her writing repeatedly plundered and reworked existing cultural material rather than treating authorship as fixed property; later accounts regularly frame her practice through theft, fragmentation, identity play, and the dismantling of literary authority.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53976096244050,"sku":"ACKER-CONTACTII-CAT-1982","price":185.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Acker_Kathy._Hello_I_m_Erica_Jong._1982_297b1d48-ab3d-4565-853e-974bfcfa398f.jpg?v=1783742332","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/kathy-acker-hello-im-erica-jong-contact-ii-publications-1982","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}