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鈥淭his is a wonderful book, Sebaldian, digressive, moving and shocking and beautiful. It is an extraordinary achievement.鈥濃��Edmund De Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes

鈥�The Forest is a series of richly imagined, gemlike tales that capture the worlds of nineteenth-century Americans. Born of tactile sensations and inspired by nature, this is literature as a kind of cultural history. Nemerov has forged a new genre of writing, prompting us all to think about the hidden fictions within our own efforts to reconstruct the past. Reading this extraordinary book made me love the nineteenth century anew.鈥�鈥擜ngela L. Miller, coauthor of American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity

鈥淣emerov is the consummate poet of the past, steering history writing in a new direction through the power of his language. His images come from art history, popular culture, and history, but many are borne aloft only through the visual suggestiveness of his descriptions. A bold and successful experiment in American studies.鈥� 鈥擬ichael Ann Holly, author of The Melancholy Art

"Nemerov writes with a poet鈥檚 precision and wildness. He tells the stories gently and quietly and ferociously all at the same time. This is a whole breathtaking world conceived through the presence and specter of trees. In the end, one might just say that this book is a prayer.鈥�鈥擪evin Quashie, author of Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being Black