Last Words: TR Ericsson: Crackle and Drag, at Transformer Station
She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag. These partial, broken images at the end of Sylvia Plath’s final poem “Edge,” written shortly before the poet’s suicide in 1963, are a patchwork of verbal shadows and flat, wounding sounds. Knowing what we do about the artist and her history, the poem can read […]
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