Blood and Guts in High School"Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and a scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with 'Parents stink.' Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her ... post-punk porn to post-punk feminism ... detailed eroticism with detailed politics and ... 'pop content'--a montage of conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature"--Page 4 of cover. |
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Dead Catullus who was clutching the book woke up and told us the following
story : rascally evil priest who cared A only for money told me , when I was still
alive , that the book I sought , this book which I ' m now as a dead man holding ,
could ...
Dead Catullus who was clutching the book woke up and told us the following
story : rascally evil priest who cared A only for money told me , when I was still
alive , that the book I sought , this book which I ' m now as a dead man holding ,
could ...
Page 158
I read the book and became a bird . La p " THE EAST RIVER THE EAST RIVER
my wife fell into the river dead wife dead babies My children fell into the river I
also fell into the and died . river and died . " " We don ' t care what danger there is.
I read the book and became a bird . La p " THE EAST RIVER THE EAST RIVER
my wife fell into the river dead wife dead babies My children fell into the river I
also fell into the and died . river and died . " " We don ' t care what danger there is.
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We don ' t care what danger there is , we tell the dead man after he finishes
speaking . " But we can no longer be human . We ' ve got to have that book . " "
You don ' t know what you ' re doing . " the dead poet says . " You don ' t know
anything ...
We don ' t care what danger there is , we tell the dead man after he finishes
speaking . " But we can no longer be human . We ' ve got to have that book . " "
You don ' t know what you ' re doing . " the dead poet says . " You don ' t know
anything ...
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Contents
Inside high school | 7 |
Outside high school | 44 |
Janey becomes a woman | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Blood and Guts in High School An Evergreen book |
| Author | Kathy Acker |
| Publisher | Grove Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802130755, 9780802130754 |
| Length | 165 pages |
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