My Mother: Demonology by Kathy Acker - 1993

New York, Pantheon, 1993. SIGNED. 1st/1st. VG/VG. Stated First Edition with no additional printings listed. Signed by Kathy Acker on the first free endpaper. The book is tight with solid hinges and clean boards. Small brown dot to top fore-edges. Textblock has 20 pages with faint dog-ear creases to page tips. There's a pen squiggle parenthesis on the outside of top paragraph on page 125. Otherwise, the book is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W illustrations. The dust jacket is unclipped ($ 22.00) with light crinkles to spine ends and a vertical crease to back flap. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.

Acker's heroine, Laurie, is a woman helpless before the fury of her emotions. Love-obsessed, Laurie is plunged into a harrowing dilemma--sexuality and her feminism are the two poles that threaten to obliterate her inner poise, the false magic of her woman's identity.

Kathy Acker left home at 18 and worked as a stripper. Her involvement in the sex industry helped to make her a hit on the NY art scene, and she was photographed by the newly fashionable Robert Mapplethorpe. Acker's writing is as difficult to classify into any particular genre as she herself was. She writes fluidly, operating in the borderlands and junkyards of human experience. Her work is experimental, playful, and provocative, engagingly alienating, narratively non sequitur.