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Erasure provided a distance from the hot material, not unlike the way crafting through a sonnet or some other received form can provide distance. Things happening on the political stage resonated deeply with things occurring in my personal life. This was summer/autumn of 2016- that election. I could not even begin to approach what I wanted to write. I love that-I hope that’s true! Maybe punk is also more acceptable than it used to be? As a dancer, architect, and person who grew up with textile projects, there was always something about the materiality of working with existing-let’s call it fabric-that really appealed to me.īut I came to this project out of necessity. This made me think about how I still see erasure as fairly punk rock and something even seasoned writers aren’t always familiar with.
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Tyler Barton: In the introduction, Eleanor Wilner says that, today, erasure is an acceptable convention in poetry. I discovered just how much of herself she put into Her Read, and how the act of making it likely saved her life. In May, I had the pleasure of corresponding with Steinorth via Google Docs. It’s as gripping as a suspense film and as layered as an expressionist mural. The book gets wilder and louder as you go. In both its poetic lines and its visual viscera, Her Read consistently discovers truth, surprise, frustration, and identity. It meant she had something to remake, a text to unmake, a chorus of voices to make speak. When Steinorth encountered an old copy of The Meaning of Art in 2016, she knew what it meant. Maybe even: the amplification of silenced voices. So, what is the meaning of art? Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, author of the book-length graphic-poem, Her Read (an erasure of Read’s tome), may answer this question with: invention or solution.