Parasitic Oscillations

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.

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