IN CONVERSATION WITH GHOSTS
Or fragmentation and redemption an the waxing moon
I work by assembling fragments, attempting wholeness in the face of traumatic shattering—both personal and historical.
In the 1990s I was in an MFA program in an English department where the postmodern philospher Jacques Derrida lectured. We were in the last gasp of postmodernism—a term Derrida himself disavowed. He coine…
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