anxieties about existing – Little Bristling Soul

Alice Notley | Alice Ordered Me To Be Made

Chris Kraus on Kathy Acker

“Conjunction, disjunction. Husserl, Melville, Descartes. She was hoping to write herself into a void: a state of hollowness she felt inside and out that might still lead to all possibilities. And yet— the anxiety to name it constricts.”

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Bici Forbes Hendricks, Black Thumb Summer Institute of Human Relations (Detail), 1966

Please post more of your own art. When you’re famous I’ll be able to think to myself “I wrote her when she was just starting”.

Oh man. What a lovely comment. I don’t generally post the text of my writing, because I am shopping my work to publishers right now and any prior publishing is frowned upon, but here is a link to an audio recording of the first section of my collection, The Orchard, with some weird sound effects.

Again; thanks so much. I have scant ambitions toward fame, but I do have aspirations to achieving some sort of emotional and intellectual cogency, so this note made my night.