{"product_id":"9781771663380","title":"Better Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch of the language that makes up Better Nature--the first book-length poetry collection by writer and academic Fenn Stewart--is drawn from a diary that Walt Whitman wrote while travelling through Canada at the end of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut rather than waxing poetic about the untouched Great White North, Stewart inlays found materials (early settler archives, news stories, email spam, fundraising for environmental NGOs, and more) to present a unique view of Canada's \"pioneering\" attitude towards \"wilderness\"--one that considers deeper issues of the settler appropriation of Indigenous lands, the notion of terra nullius, and the strategies and techniques used to produce a \"better nature\" (that is, one that better serves the nation).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Better Nature:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"With linguistic fervor, dancing intellect, and blissful urgency Stewart unveils the seemingly everyday horrors of our cruelly optimistic (would be) unsettling lands. --Liz Howard, Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"These vibrant, looping poems call on readers to wander through error as Stewart exposes the colonial hankerings that underpin the vocabularies of natural science, of romantic poetry, of the confession.\" --Shannon Maguire, author of fur(l) parachute and Myrmurs: An Exploded Sonnet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"With bounding lines that seamlessly blend the archival with the contemporary, Better Nature stitches together its source material with precision. The result is pure poetic wit and a timely perspective on the shaping of Canada's landscape.\" --This Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book*hug","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43051104501835,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":641.75,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9781771663380","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}