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On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies, 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.
Faced 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.
Gazing 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.”
Though 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.
On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies was selected for the 2024 Ottoline Prize.
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Jennifer Nelson is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Harm Eden (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021). They are an associate professor of early modern art at the University of Delaware, and also the author of two art historical monographs, most recently Lucas Cranach: From German Myth to Reformation (Reaktion, 2024). They live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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"This is the loam of the forest floor,
the ongoing of those unremembered
and those remembered wrong." - from "Sonnet"
I dream like moss at night." - from "CV"
"...Sometimes deer
shrug ticks onto leaves
and that is the right kind of attention.
Or at a cold glass apartment wall
a crow seizes up in the sky,
triples in size, and answers,
one intruder to another." - from "Statement of Future Research Plans"
"I don't want to be the cardinal
on which the revolution hangs,
that brightens the winter tree.
I want sufficient sun
to watch shadows change.
I want to turn away from death
and live it another way,
aloft, my guts
metaphorizing pleasure
as I bake my grief above..." - from "Condition for Retention"
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