- The doomed love affair between the poets Rimbaud and Verlaine; the rape of Airplane and her search for sexual oblivion; the child Capitol’s escape from her tortured family life into the cruel and fractured relationship with artist Harry. In these three separate narratives, Kathy Acker, drawing from both classic texts and Americana to produce a startling and inventive montage of history and literature, pornography and poetry, brilliantly explores the shifting and intangible nature of the self.
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