Field Notes on Avoidance | Photography & Poetry Book
Field Notes on Avoidance is Nathan Larson's limited first-edition collection of more than 60 poems and 50 photographs. Moving from Arctic shores and mountain ridges to desert nights and the Gulf, the book considers memory, wild places, longing, and what it means to belong.
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Photography, Poetry, and the Landscapes We Carry
In this collection of poems and photographs, Larson gathers fragments of landscape and human longing. The words slow the act of looking; the photographs give the poems a physical terrain. Together they trace how observation, travel, and memory shape an inner life.
Stark, tender, and unflinching, Field Notes on Avoidance asks what it means to belong—to land, to memory, and to one another. The result is an immersive visual and literary experience made to be revisited rather than scrolled past.
A Limited First Edition Made to Be Held
Cobalt thread, an exposed binding, premium European papers, and three distinct covers make each copy a tactile art object. The design draws on the intimacy of field journals: visible construction, natural-feeling paper, and images and poems meant to reward slow attention.
- Approximately 8 × 10 inches (200 × 254 mm)
- 128 pages
- More than 60 original poems and 50 photographs
- Three cover variants
- Fedrigoni endpapers and Munken paper
- Naked spine with exposed cobalt stitching
- ISBN 9798999834409
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Early Reviews
“These images are of course penetrating and powerful—but I find the poems make them better, slowing down my contemplation, giving me something to rub against. A real feat!”
—Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
“Field Notes on Avoidance is a breathtakingly beautiful blend of poetry and photography by Nathan Larson. Deftly captured with both language and image, Larson shares his intimate encounters with nature.”
—William Ferris, author of The South in Color: A Visual Journal
“There’s a quiet depth to it and a lot to love within. To bring such open honesty to both the words and photographs takes a rare kind of talent. It feels like a lifetime work.”
—Art Meripol, award-winning photographer
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