The Origin of the Species (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

Barg, Barbara; Kraus, Chris

ISBN 10: 1570270074 / ISBN 13: 9781570270079

Published by Semiotexte, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Origin of the Species (Semiotext(e) / ...

Publisher: Semiotexte

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Collects stories, manifestos, rants and songs by Homer Erotic lead singer/poet/politico Barbara Barg. The Origin of the Species collects stories, manifestos, rants and songs by Homer Erotic lead singer/poet/politico Barbara Barg. Raised as the only Jew in her Arkansas town in the mid-1960s, Barg's subject matter ranges from Nietzsche to Lithuanian pogroms to shoplifting and cocktail-waitressing to the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in her town. What do we belong toSoul or chromosome? Boundaries and bloodshedEarth seems so far from home

About the Author:

Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.