{"product_id":"on-the-way-to-the-paintings-of-forest-robberies-9798989978519","title":"On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies\u003c\/i\u003e, by poet and historian of early modern art Jennifer Nelson, makes exquisite trouble. These poems give voice to Nelson's encounters with turbulent surfaces, from the twisted spectacles of the contemporary world--geopolitical, epistemological, and local--to esteemed artworks inseparable from the legacies of colonialism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaced with the asymmetrical warfare, incessant pandemics, and climate calamities of the 2020s, these poems offer no simple solace. With wit, they plumb the wrecked relations between academic knowledge practice and any sort of liberatory praxis. They reject the manic digital buffet proffered as antidote to the poet's anger, guilt, and grief by late techno-capitalism's cultural productions.\u003cbr\u003eGazing into and grappling with the act of seeing, these poems blaze a path through forests of data and life, the ensnarled techno-webs of information and plunder. Here, the poet allows us to see beyond what and whom first meets the self's eye. Here one may press into the \"loam of the forest floor, \/ the ongoing of those--unremembered \/ and those remembered wrong.\"\u003cbr\u003eThough it may be the case that \"the world is dying,\" this book's hope is that we may, at least, persist in a form of radically productive negativity: \"Let being and making\/be the fullest\/forms of grief.\" Jennifer Nelson's deep knowledge, care-for-the-world, and capacious attention infuse this collection and the reader with wavelengths of bracing and inclusive light.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies \u003c\/i\u003ewas selected for the 2024 Ottoline Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fence Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Ottoline Prize in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 8.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798989978519","brand":"Fence Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43293852434569,"sku":"9798989978519","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_6fa01b36-821e-4922-91a1-c319ca5f6fa9.jpg?v=1737444678","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/on-the-way-to-the-paintings-of-forest-robberies-9798989978519","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}