I dare you

This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content. "I dare you is a hymn to each and every page, person, symbol, codex, mural, tapestry, scroll, carving and oral account throughout history that has been banned, shamed, destroyed or subverted. Each collaged image is a surviving piece of a work or a culture or a tradition whose destruction was attempted or achieved. Somehow, always, these pieces survive or are remade. So, destroy this book. Drown it. Question its legitimacy, relevancy, need. Strike a match and light this book aflame. This impetus to make and impart cannot be erased"--The Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website. "Stephanie Sauer is an interdisciplinary artist and the author of The Accidental Archives o