ACTS OF LOVE
(Fifty songs to my other self.)

Cover of the book Acts of Love which accompanied the record

These poems, written between 1968 - 1973 are 'songs to my other self,' a self that exists untouched and beyond the social conditioning that gave me a name, a number, an identity and a finite space in time. They describe the profound sense of unity, peace and love that exists within that other self, but in declaring that love I am also declaring battle against those who would pervert and destroy it.
These poems are an expression of my 'revolutionary' purpose, a description of what I know is possible and, because of that knowledge, the reason behind the anger I now feel.

Penny Rimbaud, 1984

Poems 16 and 17
(Text-only version)

Poem 27
(Text-only version) Poem 27

"Acts of Love" accompanied the double album released by CRASS (by the same title). Its twenty-five pages contained fifty poems and fifty-one illustrations.



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