Parasitic Oscillations
Parasitic Oscillations
Marilyn Stanley
, Karen Nordrum
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Natasa Ilic
, Jude Castillo
, Barry Kazimer
, Melissa Kohlman
, Kevin Smith
, Deb Philippon
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Annesah Hussain
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Linda Leitch
, Noelle Walsh
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Phreia Von Woolfgard
, Andrea Pole
, Dawn Macdonald
, Sarah Schwartz
, LJ Law
, Tanya Korigan
, Lisa Mallia
, Katie Olivier
, Jacob Cebulak
, Megan Brodie
, Vanessa S
, Rhonda Ganz
, Deanna Radford
, Robert Hykawy
, Lise Gaston
, Chris Carvalho
, Kim Cappellina
, Joann Horgan
, Melanie Solar
, Susan Hroncek
, Kim Wiggins
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Beth Follett
, Bob Paterson-watt
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Carole Giangrande
, Maria Mclean
, Elizabeth Blondin
, Christopher Evans
, Sara Conway
, Janet Meisner
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Carl Scott
, April van der Ham
, Chris Lantz
, Janice Cournoyer
, Lauren Seal
, Randi Ann Doll
, Andrea Gillespie
, Anndee Newson
, Nadia Cescato
editor@49thShelf.com
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), anticolonial, 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.
