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Anthropocene : climate change, contagion, consolation / Sudeep Sen ; foreword by Carolyn Forché.
Van Pelt - New Book Display PR9499.3.S352 A58 2021
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sen, Sudeep, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmentalism in literature.
- Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
- Twenty-first century.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- Climatic changes.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Sustainable living.
- Genre:
- Forecasts.
- Physical Description:
- 181 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Pippa Rann Books & Media, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Poetry, creative non-fiction and photographs weave feelings and ideas of isolation with larger global issues, politics, wars, and their consequent geopolitical/geological catastrophes. ANTHROPOCENE: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation is a literary and artistic response to the most urgent issues that face humanity now -- climate change and the pandemic. It tackles the complexities head-on with honesty and sensitivity, without any compromise. Simultaneously engaging multiple genres -- creative non-fiction, essay, prose, poetry and photography -- the book interrogates our lives against the backdrop of a dangerously fraught and ever-changing landscape, on the emotional, physical, micro and macro levels. Amid all the negative noise in the world, Anthropocene is a quiet artistic offering -- a testament to our fervent times where the ever-increasing ravages of climate change scar humanity, where Fascist politics overrides the silence of introspection, where the cleaving schism between the rich and poor becomes ever-widening, where racism peaks at an all time high, where toxicity among people proliferates, and fake news abounds."-- Amazon.com
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. PROLOGUE Meditation
- The Role of the Artist is Not to Look Away
- 2. ANTHROPOCENE: Climate Change
- I.e. [that is]
- Disembodied
- Global Warming
- Rising Sea Levels
- Climate Change
- Climate Change 2
- Drought, Cloud
- Pollution
- Asphyxia
- Summer Heat
- Amaltas
- Heat Sand
- Afternoon Meltdown
- The Third Pole
- Concrete Graves
- Endless Rain
- Rain Charm
- Shower, Wake
- 3. PANDEMIC
- Love in the Time of Corona Asthma
- Love in the Time of Corona
- Obituary
- Hope: Light Leaks
- Speaking in Silence
- Obituary 2: Nine Pins
- Corona: 14 Haiku 576
- 01. Covid 19
- 02. Ventilator
- 03. Vaccine 1
- 04. Sanitiser
- 05. Lexicon
- 06. New Normal
- 07. Pandemic
- 08. Pandemic 2
- 09. Rose Petals
- 10. Trump Foolery
- 11. Mental Health
- 12. Death
- 13. Hunger
- 14. Migrants
- Saline Drip
- Vaccine 2
- Newsreel
- Black Box: Etymology of a Crisis
- Quarantine
- 4. CONTAGION
- Corona Red Implosion
- `O' Zone
- Icicles
- Fever Pitch
- Heavy Water
- Night Ward
- Preparing for a Perfect Death
- Icarus
- The Legacy of Bones
- Corona Red
- May Day
- Scar
- Ghalib in the Time of Crisis
- 5. ATMOSPHERE: Skyjcapej
- Skyscapes 1-9
- 01. `Late at night, light leaks'
- 02. `Ink spills, bleeds dark'
- 03. `Blue-grey will moult into salt-and-pepper'
- 04. Light's plane waxes, wanes'
- 05. `Flames forming huge flares'
- 06. `Tree silhouette, fixed'
- 07. `The ray's glare'
- 08. `Amaltas / drip ochre at 48°C
- 09. `Listen to the stars'
- 6. HOLOCENE
- Geographies Abandoned Gods
- Driftwood
- Perrisa Beach: Bare Facts
- Akrotiri
- Witherstone
- Undercurrents: 20 Lake Haiku / Parts 1-3
- 101. Water's mirrored sheen
- 102. Boat-house wood walls creak
- 103. Clouds lie on water
- 104. Fish come up for air
- 105. Fall-leaves coat the lake
- 106. A shallow swimmer
- 107. Ice-cold swim
- healing
- 208. The dark waters, suck
- 209. Volcanic rumblings
- 210. Lake's pristine waters
- 211. Whispered murmurings
- 212. Despite lake's leaden
- 213. Lake's blue-black ink
- 314. Blue and green merge
- still
- 315. Freezing waters thaw
- 316. Clear sky, rain, slurry
- 317. Blue-greens change slowly
- 318. Geese squeak, cormorants
- 319. Gentle breeze wavers
- 320. A lone swimmer dives
- Disembodied 2: Les Voyageurs
- Disembodied 3: Within
- 7. CONSOLATION
- Hope The Gift of light
- Burning Ghats, Varanasi
- Ganga, Rising
- Aspen
- Shiuli I Harasingara
- Lenticular
- Indian Skies: Cinquain Diptych
- Meteor
- Listen to the Stars
- Corona: Elliptical Light
- Consolation
- Breastfeeding
- Air: Pankha Pattachitra
- Ash Smoke
- 8. LOCKDOWN
- Reading I Writing Handwriting
- Paper T[r]ails
- Language
- Fountain Pen
- Writing
- Poetics of Solitude, Songs of Silence
- Losing the Habit of Speech, Regaining the Habit of Reading
- 9. EPILOGUE: Prayer
- Meditation
- Prayer
- Chant
- Om: A Cerement.
- ISBN:
- 9781913738389
- 1913738388
- OCLC:
- 1333621075
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