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Georgina Colby provides the fullest account available of the wild and wily work of the great Kathy Acker, relying not just on her published work but also unpublished poems, journals, manuscripts, and correspondence. Contextualizing Acker's work among her contemporaries and precursors in poetry, fiction, performance, philosophy, and feminism, Colby traces her lineages and, as importantly, the resistances that made her so inimitable.--Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania Georgina Colby started up the Acker collection at Duke University. Alongside Kraus and Martin, Colby has written one of the best books on Acker, her Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible (Edinburgh University Press).--McKenzie Wark ""The Brooklyn Rail"" Georgina Colby's Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible is a meticulous study, unparalleled in its sustained attention to the published and unpublished writings of 'punk' novelist Kathy Acker.--Diarmuid Hester, University of Cambridge ""Critical Quarterly, 59:4""

"Georgina Colby provides the fullest account available of the wild and wily work of the great Kathy Acker, relying not just on her published work but also unpublished poems, journals, manuscripts, and correspondence. Contextualizing Acker's work among her contemporaries and precursors in poetry, fiction, performance, philosophy, and feminism, Colby traces her lineages and, as importantly, the resistances that made her so inimitable.--Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania Georgina Colby started up the Acker collection at Duke University. Alongside Kraus and Martin, Colby has written one of the best books on Acker, her Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible (Edinburgh University Press).--McKenzie Wark ""The Brooklyn Rail"" Georgina Colby's Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible is a meticulous study, unparalleled in its sustained attention to the published and unpublished writings of 'punk' novelist Kathy Acker.--Diarmuid Hester, University of Cambridge ""Critical Quarterly, 59:4"""

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Georgina Colby is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster.

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