Kill Class by Nomi Stone6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane Huffman, founder/editor-in-chief of Guesthouse. The exact and only knot that will keep the vessel tethered. Loved labored for months, learning to tie the right knot. She is also the author of the poetry collection Strangers. In the mist, a man rigs the Suzelle, little red boat. Nomi Stone s second collection of poems, Kill Class is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2019. ![]() Steinorth writes, “It requires an exorcism not to define ourselves - regardless of gender - relative to these objects: womxn as told through the stories and paintings of men.” We’re in luck, then, because Steinorth is an exorcist of the highest capability.” It is not as if, the philosopher writes, an I exists independently over here and then simply loses a you over there. Her Read, too, is a kind of “articulated lair” in which womxn’s stories –– the unbeautiful and impure –– are un-erased, kept safe. Steinorth’s visual art is deeply embodied and unashamed –– rendered in reds, creams, yellows, browns and organic, anatomical shapes that evoke womxn’s real bodies, labors, triumphs, horrors. What’s left of the original looms behind her paintings and drawings like a draft from the next room –– not extinguished but banished, with little chance of parole. “Each page of Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s erasure project, Her Read, is so bursting with original artwork that the source text is not only transformed but transfigured. Nomi Stone is the author of the poetry collection Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly, 2008). ![]()
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