Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
The biographer Jason McBride writes:
Acker loved to talk about bodybuilding in terms of failure, noting that a weight lifter could only build new muscle by first breaking it down, by pushing it past the point of failure. She saw in this an analogy for her own writing process. Language, for her, was also about collapse and creation.