Hunting Is Painting
Savitz, Jessica
Hunting is Painting is the debut collection by Jessica Savitz, winner of the inaugural Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize from Lake Forest College Press / &NOW, Books. This haunting collection offers Savitz's world: where the cunning and ruthlessness of the hunter exactly parallels that of the artist-naturalist, an Audubonesque figure who uses a "gun as microscope" and for whom "Slaughtering the animal / Was like freeing h...