"whatever he writes , it will always be a vested discourse, in which the body will make its appearance (banality is discourse without body). In other words, what he writes proceeds from a corrected banality.
—Roland Barthes, “As We Know”
Selected by Julie Carr for the Subito Prize , As We Know (Boulder: Subito Press , 2014) attempts to invert the gendered history of editorial intervention as it has played out in the famous cases of figures such as Dorothy Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson.