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Everybody's Autonomy is about reading and identity. Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author.
Review Quotes: "Juliana Spahr'sremarkable poetic mind is the refractive prism of her useful and inspiringcriticism. This book makes a strong case for the long-standing Americantradition of reading as a form of liberation, but it makes it in termsappropriate to Spahr's vision of a utopian democracy of active readersin today's complex cultural environments. Her engagements with Stein, Hejinian, Andrews, Mullen, and Cha enact an informed self-invention of meaning thatis both richly nuanced model of agency and constructive affirmation forour inextricably intertwined poly-ethnic-racial-lingual world."--Joan Retallack, Bard College