Parasitic Oscillations | CBC Books - Action News
Home WebMail Saturday, November 23, 2024, 07:36 AM | Calgary | -12.2°C | Regions Advertise Login | Our platform is in maintenance mode. Some URLs may not be available. |
BooksCanadian

Parasitic Oscillations

Madhur Anand's collection of poems examines various aspects of living and practicing as both a poet and scientist in the Anthropocene during a time of unravelling.

Madhur Anand

Illustrated book cover with beige background, drawn circles, and 3 eggs. Red and turquoise text overlaid.

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'sThe 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 Oscillationsis an enlightening, thought-provoking, and profoundly beautiful work that both informs and questions. (From Penguin Random House Canada)

Madhur Anand is a poet and professor of ecology at the University of Guelph. She isthe author of theANew Index for Predicting CatastrophesandThis Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart,which won the2020 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction.

Interviews with Madhur Anand

Madhur Anand on her experimental memoir, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves.

Other books by Madhur Anand

Add some good to your morning and evening.

Sign up for our newsletter. Well send you book recommendations, CanLit news, the best author interviews on CBC and more.

...

The next issue of CBC Books newsletter will soon be in your inbox.

Discover all CBC newsletters in theSubscription Centre.opens new window

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Google Terms of Service apply.