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Jennifer Sperry Steinorth - Her Read, Inbunden

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Her Read

A Graphic Poem

Av Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

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An erasure of Herbert Read's The Meaning of Art, a seminal work of art criticism first published in 1931, Her Read is a hybrid text 'part sculpture part theatre part hospital.'In the summer of 2016, rendered otherwise speechless by the amplification of hate on the national stage, and its resonance with silencing in Steinorth's personal life, she began a hybrid project, at once poetry and visual art. Appropriating a library discard of The Meaning of Art, by Herbert Read (Faber & Faber, 1931), and with liberal use of correction fluid and ink, she began excavating a first-person lyric. From the voice of the male critic surveying the cannon of male artists, she imagined voice(s) of womxn - objects become authors, become artists.Her Read is part of Con[text]ual, a series illuminating the intersection of visual art and text in the context of ideas that deepen our understanding of the contemporary world.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-07-30
  • Mått: 129 x 193 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 548 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: Texas Review Press
  • ISBN: 9781680032284
  • Utmärkelser: Commended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Poetry) 2021
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Jennifer Sperry Steinorth is a poet, educator, interdisciplinary artist, and licensed builder. Her poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Colorado Review, The Journal, jubilat, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West and elsewhere. She has received grants from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Vermont Studio Center, Warren Wilson College where she received her MFA in poetry, and The Bear River Writers’ Conference. In 2016 she was the Writers@Work Poetry Fellow selected by Tarfia Faizullah and won the Connecticut River Review Poetry Prize judged by Penelope Pellizon. She is the author of A Wake with Nine Shades (Texas Review Press, 2019).

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Impish and beautiful, and dazzlingly subversive, Her Read expresses the 'sacred rage' to be seen, to be beheld. The question Jennifer Sperry Steinorth eloquently poses, through writing over Herbert Read's misogynistic text on art, is: 'How / can / we who imagine ourselves dancing ... /  re-enter the / body'? This is not a book of poems, it's an archeology of palimpsests, a recovery by covering, a visionary art made out of the cadaver of art criticism." - Philip Metres, author of Shrapnel Maps"The profound achievement of Jennifer Sperry Steinorth's collage poem is in its scope as well as its internal beauty. 'Why do we art? - it asks, and the answer leads us through history, raising what has been quietly, often painfully, subsumed under the traditional story, represented by a particular book, The Meaning of Art, by Herbert Read. Here comes the feminine, the imp, breaking through, or squeezing around, the old story, word by word! The result is less an erasure than a separate art, stitched upon, painted upon, cut into. It is a study in desire and erotic play - amusing, troubling, beautiful, and broken. It sings the pain of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers and celebrates the beauty of mutual love, male and female. Its originality and heart leave me breathless." - Fleda Brown, author of Flying Through a Hole in the Storm

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