AK Press, 1995
Paperback
75 pp.
14 × 22 cm
Black-and-white illustrations
Text by Kathy Acker, with illustrations by Diane DiMassa and 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 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.
Condition: Very good. Minor signs of wear.
Original period item.
