A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes

Category: Book
By (author): Anand, Madhur
Subject:  POETRY / Canadian
  POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Nature
  POETRY / Women Authors
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: April 2015
Format: Book-paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 8.18in x 5.48in x 0.34in
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Guelph environmental professor Madhur Anand's first book of poetry has garnered so much attention. Scientific jargon dressed with verve and depth crossed with the life of a nature lover, mother, daughter, and complete person.

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From The Publisher*A striking poetic debut that brilliantly illuminates and celebrates the intersection of poetry and science, and the ways they can mediate our discovery of the world and our place in it.
     Originating from her living room, backyard garden, university office, or the field sites in boreal or tropical forests, the poems in Madhur Anand's captivating debut collection compose a lyric science; they bring order and chaos together into a unified theory of predicting catastrophes, large and small. Anand's ecologist poetics are sophisticated and original; her voice is an "index," a way of cataloguing and measuring the world and human experience, and of illuminating the interconnectedness at the heart of all things. Narrating the beauty of her perceived world, the poems unabashedly embrace the scintillant language of scientific evidence as they interrogate crises of personal and global concern. The result is a poetry that is as complex as it is compassionate. Anand's modernist intervention into "nature" poetry is a sparkling addition to poetics in Canada and beyond.
Review Quote*"In Madhur Anand's poems the ancient false dichotomy between art and science collapses, and does so with such grace, wit, and élan you'd think this had been its purpose all along. These poems are alive with the potency of their own hybrid attentions- rapt, nimble, and capable of unlocking the energies asleep in eco-scientific jargon as well as popular culture and the poet's Indian heritage. Here is a writing full of linguistic and conceptual verve, essential reading for all of us interested in poetry and the ecological arts." 
--Don McKay, Griffin Poetry Prize–winning author of Strike/Slip
Biographical NoteMADHUR ANAND's poetry has appeared in literary magazines across North America and in The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science (AK Peters/CRC Press, 2008). She co-edited Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry (Scrivener Press, 2009). A New Index For Predicting Catastrophes (McClelland and Stewart, 2015) is her first full-length poetry collection. Anand completed her PhD in theoretical ecology at Western University and is currently Full Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph. She lives in Guelph with her husband and three young children.