AK Press, 1995. Paperback, 75 pp., 14 × 22 cm. Black-and-white illustrations by Diane DiMassa; collages by Freddie Baer.
A small paperback object positioned between fiction, comic, and printed disturbance. The cover carries its own terms: desire, violence, sex, danger, price, barcode. Acker’s name sits above the image, already functioning as author, persona, and circulation device.
Inside, language and image move in parallel. DiMassa’s drawings extend the text into a graphic register of bodies, jokes, threat, and refusal. Baer’s collage work interrupts the surface further, keeping the book close to zine, pamphlet, and underground comic production — the kind of object that circulates outside institutional channels and accumulates meaning through use.
Pussycat Fever sits within Acker’s wider economy of self-mythology, plagiarism, sexuality, and breakdown. It does not resolve into a stable literary object. It behaves more like a portable fragment: handled, read, passed on.
Condition: Very good. Minor signs of wear. Original period item.
