Description: Her Read: A Graphic Poem is an artifact of erasure, at once poetry and visual art. From the voice of the male art critic surveying male bodies of work, Steinorth excavates a first-person lyric, a reclamation of maternal bodies framed in gilt and an homage to women whose arts remain unsung.
Review Quotes:
"All erasure is by nature a transgression. . . . The voice of Her Read knows that by creating art at all, a female artist transgresses cultural norms, and much of history. To 'deface, ' to erase the very book that codifies that culture and history, is a transgression indeed. Steinorth, consciously representing a class of people excluded from the history and the meaning of Western art, breaks, enters, and transforms. And she undertakes that transgression as an act of civil disobedience."
--The Georgia Review