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After Kathy Acker: A Biography

After Kathy Acker: A Biography

Chris Kraus

At once forensic and intimate, After Kathy Acker traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody.
Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

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Chapter Nine Kathy Acker's Terrorist Network: Re-mapping Transnational Resistance Leif Sorensen The complexity of Kathy Acker's transnational imagination defies simple description. There is no existing terminology that sums up the ...
Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice

Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice

James R. Acker

... NC: Carolina Academic Press 2006). Marsha Kimble, “My Journey and the Riddle,” in Acker & Karp, Wounds That Do Not Bind, supra note 74, at 127, 138. See generally Jody Lynee Madeira, Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and ...
Air-proof Green

Air-proof Green

Maleea Acker

Poems in Maleea Acker's second collection range over continents and countries, asking an essential question for our time: How do we live in the world?
The Hieronymus story, 1997

The Hieronymus story, 1997

Kenneth McClanahan

7/7/1988 FJ( 13)65822 NATHAN TYLER SCHUMACHER b. 7/25/1991 FJ( 13) 659 LONNIE LELAND ACKER m. IRENE MARGARET HEISTERBURG (1st) b. 12 /13/1927 b. 2/1/1928 m. 10/10/1954 d. 1/20/1984 Children: Surname ACKER FJ(  ...
Wegweiser durch die Herzogthümer Schleswig und Holstein, für ...

Wegweiser durch die Herzogthümer Schleswig und Holstein, für ...

Wilh Hirschfeld

dem Haupthofe an Acker und Wiesen 1051 Tonnen und an Holzungen 500 Tonnen ; der Meierhof Henningrode, an Acker und Wiesen 300 Tonnen; der Meierhof Rockefort, an Acker und Wiesen 200 Tonnen, und die Dorfländereien 1009 ...
Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

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Shannon Rose Riley shrewdly probes the association of Acker's text with older popular culture texts that use the “goes to” trope, such as Cole Porter's 1939 hit “ Katie went to Haiti,” Hollywood flicks such as “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” Mr. Smith ...
When She Does what She Does: Intertextual Desire and ...

When She Does what She Does: Intertextual Desire and ...

Douglas A. Martin

... 2000), Nicola Pitchford's Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in Kathy Acker and Angela Carter (2004), and Maureen F. Curtin's Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker (2003). paper accepted; ...
The Malahat Review

The Malahat Review

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POETRY MALEEA ACKER, The Reflecting Pool (Toronto: Pedlar, 2009). Paperbound, 90 pp., $20. Reading Maleea Acker's first collection, The Reflecting Pool, packaged in a beautiful, textured volume, is a dreamy journey into image and ...
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Cornell University

... Ephraim Viertels, B.S., Everett Gunner Ackart, Ph.B., William Lewis Acker, Cuyler Culver Adams, Francis Spearman Adams, Thomas Dickinson Adams, A.B. Carl George Allen, Clark Taggart Anderson, Walter Jonas Armstrong, James Nelson ...
Criminal Procedure: A Contemporary Perspective

Criminal Procedure: A Contemporary Perspective

James R. Acker

See, e.g., State v. Mangold, 82 NJ. 575, 414 A.2d 1312 (1980); State v. Lunsford, 655 S.W.2d 921 (Tenn. 1983). See generally B. Latzer, State Constitutional Criminal Law § 3:26 (1995). 2. In Opperman, the Supreme Court emphasized that  ...
Vireo's Night

Vireo's Night

Lori Maleea Acker

Original poems in English and Spanish.
Marriages in Nova Scotia (excluding Halifax City), ...

Marriages in Nova Scotia (excluding Halifax City), ...

Heather Allison Long

... Crowne, Jacques, -* Crown, James, - Crowne, James, - Crown, James, b Crown, James, - Crown, James, Jr., - Crown, James, w Cro[w]n, James, - Crown, James, w Crown, James, - Crown, James, - Crown, James, - Crown, James, - Crown, ...
I'm Very Into You: Correspondence 1995--1996

I'm Very Into You: Correspondence 1995--1996

Kathy Acker

I'm Very Into You is a text of incipience, a text of beginnings, and a set of notes on the short, shared passage of two iconic individuals of our time.
Gerhard Schroeder

Gerhard Schroeder

Kerry Acker

Elected in 1998, Schroeder and his pro-business platform promised to breathe new life into Germany's stagnant political landscape.
Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange

Kerry Acker

Discusses the life and work of the twentieth century American photographer, Dorothea Lange.
Nina Simone

Nina Simone

Kerry Acker

Traces the life and accomplishments of Nina Simone, singer, pianist, and civil rights activist, who was known for her unique sound.
Everything You Need to Know about the Goth Scene

Everything You Need to Know about the Goth Scene

Kerry Acker

Introduces the characteristics of the lifestyle and look known as "Goth," and explains that for many of its followers it is more of a stylistic choice while for others it is a way of life, and that most are sensitive and tolerant, not ...
Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright

Kerry Acker

Madeleine Albright came to the United States as an eleven-year-old Czechoslovakian refugee and grew up to become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in the U.S. government.
Bartlett Plays: 1: My Child, Contractions, Artefacts, Cock, ...

Bartlett Plays: 1: My Child, Contractions, Artefacts, Cock, ...

Mike Bartlett

James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda Yeah. I was. Idiot. I knew about roaming patrol. So I was jumpy. I stood up and tried to see.
Descant

Descant

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Maleea Acker Calles de Merida a las Tres de la Mariana This is a time of grace: we remember the weaving, occasional lights of sepia cars during our hours of night translation. The yellow streetlamps' glimmer falls deeply, purifies each ...
Women in Politics Set

Women in Politics Set

Kerry Acker

Women in Politics offers inspiring profiles of women who broke through gender barriers to become successful in the political realm--not only in the United States, but around the world.
Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of ...

Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of ...

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For a discussion, withdocuments concerning theexpendable launch vehicle situation, seeJohn M. Logsdon,gen. ed.,with Ray A. Williamson, RogerD. Launius , Russell J. Acker, Stephen J. Garber, and Taylor, of NASA's Mission to Jupiter ( New ...
The Fiddlehead

The Fiddlehead

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Lori Maleea Acker Mechanic During the day there is work, the forcing of metal against metal in the engine practice rooms, a net of diagrams catching him endless, scoring the tender parts of his fingers. He imagines double hulled tankers, ...
Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American ...

Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American ...

Larry McCaffery

Reviews and Commentanes about Ackers Work [Note: The 1989 special Acker issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction, edited by Ellen Friedman and Miriam Fuchs, is probably the best single source of critical discussions of her work.
The Virgin encyclopedia of jazz

The Virgin encyclopedia of jazz

Colin Larkin

Here is all you could want to know about everybody from John Coltrane to Johnny Ball, from Charlie Parker to Acker Bilk. With The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz you are an instant master of pure beatnik cool.

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