REVIEWED BY KATE EELMAN
Papercuts, JP (Jamaica Plain, MA)
You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends is a unique, exhilarating work of nonfiction told through bold art and raw language. The eroticism in Iannone’s work is expressed not just in her daring and beautiful sexual images, but also in the risks she takes. Iannone reveals herself entirely, allowing the reader to see the artist exposed. This creates a thrilling and intimate relationship: her narrative is told in a voice so rare in its honesty, it's tantric. Indulging in You Who Read Me... is to be immersed fully in Iannone’s story. It’s an extremely active mode of reading, wherein the reader is so highly involved—sometimes scouring for words within images—that the story becomes the reader’s own. In this way, Iannone’s bravery is contagious: the reader takes a solo journey and finds unity with and peace from a narrative full of heart and color.
You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends is published by Siglio and distributed by D.A.P./Artbook.com.
$45 320 pages 210 b/w images and 95 color ISBN: 978-1-938221-07-1 Pub date: December 2014
