Empire of the Senseless Kathy Acker

Novels, stories

• Politics (1972; excerpts published in Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991); full text published in Kathy Acker (1971–1975) (2019)
• The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the United States (pub. 2002, from manuscript 1972)
• Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective (pub. 2002, from manuscript 1973)
• Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula By the Black Tarantula (1973)
• I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining (1974)
• Haiti: A Trip to the Voodoo Doctor (Travelers Digest Issue 1, Volume 1, 1977; later published in Kathy Goes to Haiti)
• Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1978)
• Florida (1978)
• Kathy Goes to Haiti (1978)
• The Seattle Book: For Randy and Heather (1980, with illustrations)
• The Persian Poems by Janey Smith (Travelers Digest Issue 2, Volume 1, ed. Jeff Goldberg, 1980; poems from Blood and Guts in High School, with drawings by Robert Kushner, 1980)
• N.Y.C. in 1979 (1981)
• Hello, My Name Is Erica Jong (1982; also available in Blood and Guts in High School)
• Translations of the Diaries of Laure the Schoolgirl (1983)
• Implosion (1983; also available in My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini)
• Great Expectations (1983)
• Algeria : A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works (1984)
• My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1984)
• Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
• Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream (1986)
• Lust: A Sailor's Slight Identity (1987, available in Hannibal Lecter, My Father)
• Literal Madness: Three Novels (Reprinted 1987; contains Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Florida)
• Young Lust (1988; contains Kathy Goes to Haiti, The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec, and Florida)
• Empire of the Senseless (1988)
• In Memoriam to Identity (1990)
• Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)
• Portrait of an Eye (1992, includes early novels Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula By the Black Tarantula (1973); I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining (1974); Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1978)
• My Mother: Demonology (1994)
• Pussycat Fever (with Diane Dimassa and Freddie Baer, illustrators, 1995)
• Pussy, King of the Pirates (1996)
• Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels (Reprinted 1998)
• Eurydice in the Underworld (1998)
• Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker (2002)[47]
• Kathy Acker (1971–1975) (2019, Éditions Ismael, 656 pgs.), ed. Justin Gajoux and Claire Finch, critical edition of unpublished early writings from 1971 to 1975

Some of the contents from * Kathy Acker (1971–1975) (2019, Éditions Ismael, 656 pgs.), ed. Justin Gajoux and Claire Finch, critical edition of unpublished early writings from 1971 to 1975

• The Golden Woman (poem, 1969–1970)
• Section from DIARY (1–2, 1971)
• Portraits (7, 1971)
• Portraits and Visions (summer 1971)
• Diary Warmcatfur (1, 1972)
• Politics (1972, full text)
• For H. (1972)
• Revolutionary Diary of an Anarchist (1972)
• Journal Black Cats Black Jewels (summer 1972)
• Gold Songs for Jimi Hendrix (1972)
• Breaking Up (summer 1972)
• [Letter to Berndadette Mayer] (fall 1972)
• Entrance into Dwelling in Paradise (poems, fall 1972)
• [Exercises] (fall 1972)
• Stripper Disintergration (2–3, 1973)
• Section from Diary (3, 1973)
• [Letter to Bernadette Mayer] (1973)
• The Beginning of the Thesmophoriazusae (7–9, 1973)
• Part I of Breaking Through Memories into Desire (11, 1973)
• Part II [of Breaking Through Memories...] (1, 1974)
• Conversations (1, 1974)
• [Letters to Alan Sondheim] (2–3, 1974)
• [Letter to Bernadette Mayer] (3/3/1974)

Poetry

This is not a complete list.

This symbol # indicates published in Kathy Acker (1971–1975) (2019, Éditions Ismael, 656 pgs.), ed. Justin Gajoux and Claire Finch, critical edition of unpublished early writings from 1971 to 1975

• The Golden Woman (poem, 1969–1970) #
• Journal Black Cats Black Jewels (summer 1972) #
• Gold Songs for Jimi Hendrix (1972) #
• Part I of Breaking Through Memories into Desire (11, 1973) #
• Part II [of Breaking Through Memories...] (1, 1974) #
• Baby don't give baby don't get (from the novel Florida)
• Homage to Leroi Jones (poems, pub. 2015 by Lost and Found: The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative, from manuscript 1972)

Discussion/reading of two poems from the novel Blood and Guts in High School

Stage work

• Desire (Bomb 3, spring 1982)
• Lulu Unchained (drama, 1985, first performed at ICA; available in the novel Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream)
• The Birth of the Poet (drama, 1981; performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1985, directed by Richard Foreman; published in Eurydice in the Underworld; also in Wordplays 5: An Anthology of New American Drama, 1987)
• Requiem (drama, 1997; published in Eurydice in the Underworld)

Screenplay

• Variety (screenplay, 1985, directed by Bette Gordon; unpublished)

Recordings, music collabs

• Pussy (1994, produced by CodeX; contains two sections, O and Ange and Pussy, King of the Pirates: Her Story)
• The Stabbing Hand (1995) – spoken-word guest appearance on alternate mix of song by Oxbow, included on reissues of album Let Me Be a Woman[48]
• Pussy, King of the Pirates (1997, Touch and Go Records) – Acker's operetta, performed and recorded by the Mekons with Kathy Acker
• Redoing Childhood (2000) spoken-word recording, KRS 349.

Essays (periodicals, book reviews, movie reviews, art reviews, speeches, and other texts)

This is not a complete list. The symbols ^^ indicate it's available at Duke University's collection of Kathy Acker's papers. The symbol # indicates the essay is included in the Kathy Acker collection Bodies of Work: Essays (London: Serpent's Tail, 1997).

• Notes on Writing from the Life of Baudelaire (1979^^)
• New York City 1983 (from Marcus Leatherdale: His photographs – a book in a series on people and years, with Christian Michelides, published by Wien, Molotov, 1983)
• Realism for the Cause of Future Revolution (from Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, 1984#)
• Collette (1985#)
• An Actual Institution of Art (1986^^)
• Introduction to collection Young Lust (1988)
• Introduction to Boxcar Bertha (1988#)
• A Few Notes on Two of my Books (from Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol 9, no. 3, Fall 1989#)
• Blue Valentine (1989^^)
• Review of Scandal for Weiner (1989^^)
• Low: Good and Evil in the Work of Nayland Blake (1990) A selection is available in the Kathy Acker collection Body of Works: Essays.
• The World According to Peter Greenway (from The Village Voice, volume 35, April 17, 1990#)
• In the Underworld (1990^^)
• William Burroughs' Realism (1990)
• From Counter-Culture to Culture, But Here's no Culture/Fuck Ecology and the Death of Communism/The Meaning of the 80s (1990^^)
• New York City 25/12/89-31/12/89 at the Edge of the New (1990^^)
• The Language of Sex The Sex of Language (1990)
• Critical Languages (1990#)
• Dead Doll Humility (1990).
• The Meaning of the Eighties (from The Village Voice, volume 35, January 2, 1990#)
• Bodybuilding (1991)
• The War at Home: Bonfire of the Vanities by Brian de Palma (1991^^)
• Red Wings: Concerning Richard Prince's "Spiritual America" (from Parkett, 1992#)
• Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body (from The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw Bodies, 1993#)
• Reading the Lack of the Body: The Writing of the Marquis de Sade (from The Divine Sade, 1994#)
• After the End of the Art World (1994^^)
• Statements on the Nature of Musical Comedy (1994^^)
• Seeing Gender (from Critical Quarterly, 1995#)
• Running through the World: On the Art of Kiki Smith (1995^^)
• Mirror: Two Works of Art (1995^^)
• Moving Into Wonder (An introduction to Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists, 1995#)
• Unidentified contribution to Dust: Essays (1995)
• Writing, Identity, and Copyright in the Net Age (from MMLA, volume 28, number 1, Spring 1995#)
• Samuel Delaney: Orpheus (1996^^)
• On Delany the Magiian (Foreword to Trouble on Triton, 1996#)
• The Future (1997#)
• The Gift of the Disease (The Guardian, January 18, 1997)
• Bruce Willis and Me (1997^^)
• Bodies of Work: Essays (1997). Includes a preface. Any essay with symbol # indicates it is included in this collection.
• Acker: Articles from The New Statesman 1989–1991 (2007, Amandla Publishing)
• Russian Constructivism (from Blasted Allegories) (date unknown#)
• Notes on a title page of Herman Melville's White Jacket (Undated)
• Some American Cities (from Marxism Today) (date unknown#)
• Postmoderism (undated #)
• About Robert Mapplethorpe (undated^^)
• Allen Ginsberg: A Personal Portrait (undated^^)
• A Bunch of Propositions about the Hernandez Brothers (undated^^)
• On Twin Peaks (undated^^)
• Women who have Big Muscles (undated^^)
• The End of Poetry (undated^^)
• Eugenie De Franval (undated^^)
• Fabre's Work or Opera (undated^^)
• Unidentified essay, part of the Iain Sinclair inventory.

Book reviews – typescripts of sixteen different reviews from 1985 to 1989 – available at Duke University's collection of Kathy Acker papers.

Interviews and conversations

Incomplete list:

• Interview with Barry Alpert (Mitali Restaurant, pub. in Only Paper Today, March 30, 1976) Published in The Last Interview.
• "Kathy Acker by Mark Margill" (pub. in BOMB Magazine, July 1, 1983)
• Informal Interview (with R.J. Ellish, Carolyn Bird, Dawn Curwen, Ian Mancor, Val Ogden, and Charles Patrick, April 23, 1986) Published in The Last Interview.
• Kathy Acker at the ICA (Part of the Anthony Rolland Collection of Films and Art, Writers in Conversation, 1986)
• A Conversation with Kathy Acker (with Ellen G. Friedman, Gramercy Park Hotel, NYC, 1 February 1988) Pub. in Review of Contemporary Fiction 9, No. 3 (Fall 1989): 12–22.
• Conversations with Dean Kulpers (Gramercy Park Hotel Bar, NYC, July 2, 1988). Published in The Last Interview.
• Devoured by Myths: An Interview with Sylvere Lotringer (New York, Oct 1989 – May 1990, published in Hannibal Lecter My Father) The unexpurgated transcript was published in The Last Interview.
• "An interview with Kathy Acker" (with Larry McCaffery, pub. in Mississippi Review 20, Nos. 1–2 (1991): 83–97).
• The On Our Backs Interview: Kathy Acker (with Lisa Palac, May/June 1991). Published in The Last Interview.
• Kathy Acker Interviewed by Rebecca Deaton (pub. in Textual Practice 6, No. 2 (Summer 1992): 271–82.
• Body Building (with Laurence A. Rikels, pub. in Artforum, February 1994). Published in The Last Interview.
• Can't: Walk and chew gum (with Ricahrd Kadrey, from Covert Culture series, pub. in Hotwired online, 13 September 1995)
• Kathy Acker (in conversation with Beth Jackson, pub. in eyeline, Autumn/Winter 1996). Published in The Last Interview.
• Strange Gaze interview with Anton Corbijn (1996, source unknown, available at Duke University's collection of Kathy Acker's papers)
• All Girls Together: Kathy Acker Interviews the Spice Girls (pub. The Guardian, 1997) Published in The Last Interview.
• The Last Interview (with Kesia Boddy, 1997) Published in The Last Interview.
• Candle in the Wind (interviewed by Ruben Reyes, Phsycus Room, Issue 3, Summer 1998)
• Kathy Acker (with Andrea Juno and V. Vale, pub. in Angry Women (RE/Search, 1991: June Books, 1999). Published in The Last Interview.
• Pussy and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance or how to be a pirate on-line and channel your energies so as to remember your dreams... (interviewed by Rosie X, date/magazine unknown)
• interview with Karl Schieder (July 25, 1991, The Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, pub. in ilato.org, pub date unknown)
• A Conversation with Kathy Acker (interviewed by Benjamin Bratton (Speed), pub. in Apparatus and Memory, date unknown)
• Kathy Acker interviews William S. Burroughs (date unknown)

Correspondence

Incomplete list:

• Spread Open, with artist Paul Buck. Incorporates correspondence between Kathy Acker and Buck from early 80s. Published in 2005 by Dis Voir.
• I'm Very Into You. A book of Acker's email correspondence with media theorist McKenzie Wark, edited by Matias Viegener, her executor and head of the Kathy Acker Literary Trust. Pub. in 2015, by Semiotext(e).