Kathy Acker's "My Mother: Demonology, a novel" (1993)

New York City: Pantheon Books (book), 1993.
8.5" x 5.875" x 1", 269 pages, hardcover in dust jacket, ISBN 0-679-40349-3.

My Mother: Demonology, a novel by Kathy Acker, as published in hardcover by Pantheon Books (New York City) in 1993.  Designed by Judy Christensen. Jacket photography by Harvey Wang and Michel Delsol. Jacket design by Chip Kidd and Barbara de Wilde. 

The dust jacket for this book has a blurb by William S. Burroughs for Acker's Portrait of an Eye: "A writer's 'I' is often the least interesting subject of his artistic consciousness, and Kathy Acker beautifully resolves this problem by having no 'I,' and having many 'I's... her author moves and shifts before you can know who 'you' are, and that gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul."

This specific copy was inscribed by Kathy Acker to author Mark Pritchard: "To Mark – / With love & / friendship for / the future – / All Love, / Kathy". It was acquired directly from the author, who sent a note with the copy, which is maintained with the item.

Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender. 

Contents: 

• 1. "Intro That Belly of Hell Whose Name Is the United States":
• 1. "My Mother"
• 2. "Letters from My Mother to My Father"
• 3. "Clit City (Beatrice's Story)"
• 4. "Obsession"
• 5. "Dreaming Politics" 
• 2. "Out (In the Form of Healing)":
• 6. "Redoing Childhood: The Beginning of the History of Dreams"
• 7. "The Dead Man"