Parasitic oscillations : poems / Madhur Anand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anand, Madhur, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Ecology--Poetry.

Ecology.

Genre:

Poetry.

poetry.

Physical Description:

115 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2022]

Summary:

"A stunning new collection of poems that examine various aspects of living and practicing as both a poet and scientist in the Anthropocene during a time of unravelling. The poems in Madhur Anand's second collection interrogate the inevitability of undesired cyclic variation caused by feedback in the amplifying devices of both poetry and science. There are several interacting currents: the poet's own work between the arts and the sciences, living between North American and Indian cultures, as well as examining contemporary environments through the lag effects of the past. Weaving in a close reading of A.O. Hume's The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds (1889), anti-colonial, intertextual, feminist, electronic, and diasporic relationships are examined against the backdrop of unprecedented ecological collapse. Here, birds are often no longer direct subjects of metaphor, but rather remain strange, sometimes silent, a kind of menacing and stray capacitance, but can still act as harbingers of discovery and hope. Fluctuating through extreme highs and lows, both emotional and environmental, while examining a myriad of philosophical and ethical dilemmas, Parasitic Oscillations is an enlightening, thought-provoking, and profoundly beautiful work that both informs and questions."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part One

Sensible Parallels, Portrait 1

A Simple Note, Portrait 2

Repertoire for a Restitution, Portrait 3

Part Two

Mind Compression

Mother Says I Talk Like a Son

Collection of Wild Birds' Eggs Is Now Only Permitted with a Licence

Partition 1

Every Day Is Independence Day

Partition 2

Animal Behaviour

Surface Temperatures of Albatross Eggs and Nests

Field Course

Visiting the Rothschild Collection, Tring

Summations

All My Learning Is Falling through the Cracks

Satyagraha in Tubingen

Ode to a QR Code

Part Three

On the Nature of Things

White-throated Laughing-Thrush Caught in My Throat

Rising Variance as an Early Warning

Brain Hemorrhage, Early Fall

Light Is the Fastest Thing We Know of

Influence Is Infinitely Circuital

Amplification

Damped Oscillation

Two-part Organ, or Returning to Cardinal

Stray Capacitance of Diasporic Specimens, as Khayal

Dream Two Birds Left on My Windowsill

Normal Forms on Hope Bay

pt. Four Figures

pt. Five Parametric Oscillation

pt. Six Songs

pt. Seven Slow Dance.

Notes:

Subtitle from cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Anand, Madhur, 1971- Parasitic oscillations.

ISBN:

9780771099410

077109941X

OCLC:

1265005039

Publisher Number:

99990698281