Written by a founding member of the Italian movement, Arte Povera, “Lire,” a work about the visual properties of the printed word, makes physical the act of reading one word. Taking the simple word of the title, Anselmo varies its size and scale on the page until a progression is established. The result finds the viewer “reading” in the same manner he / she sees. The word, its lettering, the ratio of print to page, the relationship of white to black : Anselmo produces a veritable taxonomy of the book.