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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 15:41:40 +0300
From: Gary Shank <shank who-is-at mail.cc.duq.edu>
Reply-To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
To: xmca who-is-at ucsd.edu
Subject: sad news...
Resent-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 12:38:09 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
By now, many of you know this, but for the rest of us, Kathy Acker died of
cancer this past Sunday. Acker was a writer of astonishing power and one
of the most important voices in postmodern fiction and criticism. You can
read one of her pieces at:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v003/3.1acker.html
Rest in peace, Kathy....
gary
shank who-is-at duq.edu
I'm stunned. I loved Kathy Acker without ever meeting her in real time.
In Lacanian terms, she made the symbolic speak the REAL. She made the body
speak. She enriched my life just by living and writing and I am diminished
by her passing. Who among us now will make a voice to speak the impossible
which we are but can only know with a sorceress whispering in our left
ear. Who will remind me constantly of everything I must forget to be who I
am. I'm a failed poet because I lack what she tryed to give and thus this
sad attempt at an epitaph will fail not her but me. The mute empire of the
senseless just got larger. I'm crying for a realtime stranger and I have
no voice to tell you why.