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Join us for a reading and Q&A with poet Madhur Anand on her second collection\, Parasitic Oscillations.
Parasitic Oscillations is a stunning new collection of poems that examine various aspects of living and practicing as both a p oet and scientist in the Anthropocene during a time of unravelling.
T he 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: t he poet’s own work between the arts and the sciences\, living between North American and Indian cultures\, as well as examining contemporary environme nts 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)\, anticolonial\, intertex tual\, feminist\, electronic\, and diasporic relationships are examined aga inst the backdrop of unprecedented ecological collapse. Here\, birds are of ten no longer direct subjects of metaphor\, but rather remain strange\, som etimes silent\, a kind of menacing and stray capacitance\, but can still ac t as harbingers of discovery and hope.
Fluctuating through extreme hi ghs and lows\, both emotional and environmental\, while examining a myriad of philosophical and ethical dilemmas\, Parasitic Oscillations is an enligh tening\, thought-provoking\, and profoundly beautiful work that both inform s and questions.
Dr. Madhur Anand is the author of the experiment al memoir This Red Line Goes Str aight to Your Heart\, the poetr y collection A New Index for Pre dicting Catastrophes\, and seve ral other literary works published in national and international literary m agazines. She is a professor of ecology and sustainability at the Universit y of Guelph\, where she was appointed the inaugural Director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.
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