Kathy Acker's writing is extremely inventive and creative in its form. She employs poetry, narrative, and dialogue among many literary techniques. The influence of Burroughs is obvious throughout the book in her use of the cut up method, which her layering of writing becomes is highly descriptive and allows my mind to carry off into a imaginative visual of surrealist painting or collage. I could not help but wonder how mush of this narrative was true in a biographical sense. As she addresses sexuality and intimacy in such a free manner, it seems as though there is presence of stream of conscious writing in her work as well.
The direct use of her strong voice reminds me of performance works that explore the female identity through ritualistic acts such as:
Carolee Schneemann.....
Rebecca Horn
and
Ana Mendieta
Images of Barbara Kruger were conjured in my mind as I read Acker's cut up style text.
In her feminist approach, I recall the activist works of the Guerilla Girls.
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