Copyright © 1978, 1984, 1987 by Kathy Acker

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Kathy Goes to Haiti was first published by Rumor Publications in 1978, and My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini was first published by Pan Books, Ltd., London, in 1984.

Published simultaneously in Canada

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Acker, Kathy, 1948—

Literal madness.

Contents: Kathy goes to Haiti—My death, my life,

by Pier Paolo Pasolini—Florida.

I. Title.

PS3551.C44L51988813’.5487-14860

ISBN-10: 0-8021-3156-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3156-0

eISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4660-1

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