NMLP P-017740 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04
Blood and Guts in High School
Kathy Acker · Grove Press · 1984
A notable text point of the original 1984 setting: in the rush to publish, both Grove and Picador printed the final two sections, 'The Journey' and 'The World,' in reversed order; this transposition persisted in the early printings and was only corrected in Grove's 2017 anniversary edition, so the reversed-section state marks the original issue rather than the corrected later text
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-017740 for "Blood and Guts in High School" by Kathy Acker (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-017740, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).