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.

A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes

Literature & Fiction

Anand, Madhur

Genre Fiction

MCCLELLAND STEWART

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION\n“Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…This is an important book: an emotional and intellectual tour de force.” —Jane Urquhart\nAn experimental memoir about Partition, immigration, and generational storytelling, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma, using the imagined voices of the past and the vital authority of the present.\nWe begin with a man off balance: one in one thousand, the only child in town whose polio leads to partial paralysis. We meet his future wife, chanting Hai Rams for Gandhiji and choosing education over marriage. On one side of the line that divides this book, we follow them as their homeland splits in two and they are drawn together, moving to Canada and raising their children in mining towns and in crowded city apartments. And when we turn the book over, we find the daughter's tale—we see how the rupture of Partition, the asymmetry of a father's leg, the virus of a mother's rage, makes its way to the next generation.\nTold through the lenses of biology, physics, history and poetry, this is a memoir that defies form and convention to immerse the reader in the feeling of what remains when we've heard as much of the truth as our families will allow, and we're left to search for ourselves among the pieces they've carried with them.

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Strange Light

Product Description "Anand's attention to and ability to evoke explicit, exponential beauty in scientific and natural form are simply stunning. . . . Anand's debut is in every measure a triumph." –Publishers WeeklyA 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. Review Praise for Madhur Anand and Parasitic Oscillations"With Parasitic Oscillations, Madhur shares a poesis of natural history collections... She transports us to the 19th century via a collection of Indian eggs and birds by A.O. Hume (1829–1912), grounds us in the present, and encourages our minds to wander into futures. Unlike any poetry collection I’ve encountered before, bird songs are the reward on a QR code treasure hunt. The codes overlayed on images of specimens, functional – to be scanned, then transported across space and time to where the Nilgiri laughingthrush sings, reminding us it is still here. ... The final poem is one of the longer, if not longest, of Madhur’s that I have read. I was delighted to then learn in the footnotes that the poem was written through collaboration – a sort of call and response – between Madhur and other artists, scientists, and species. I find the approach used to create the final poem an exciting way to write at the intersection between science and art – one that might speak to others given its potential for creating conversation between humans and non-humans through relational writing. You will find grounding and flight with Parasitic Oscillations." —The Niche "It’s such a distinctive and important book. In one sense, it’s a book about colonialism—environmental and otherwise. In another, a meditation on places and family. And it’s obviously churning with pointed ecological impetus. But it’s so much more than any of those themes, and more nuanced. More playful, and yet exigent . . . That phrase 'stray capacitance' comes up at least three times. And there should be a literary phrase like that for the energizing technique [she has] of displacing a predictable syntactical trajectory with a kind of metonymic substitution. . . . So brilliant. So fun. So constantly standing up the dendrites in my brain." —Forrest Gander, Pulitzer-prize winner and author of Twice Alive“Not only does Anand repurpose scientific language, but she also makes use of figures, diagrams and photographs to expand the possibilities of the poem. Below a diagram of a phase plane portrait of a mathematical model of birdsong, Anand writes, ‘Superimposing the concept of diaspora on the movement of bird specimens around the world, tracking the co-movements of natural and cultural histories to bring to light the oscillatory, but ultimately entwined interrelations of humans and nature.’ This grounding in connection leads Anand to shift perspe

Parasitic Oscillations: Poems

Self-Help

Relationships

Climate Change Biology

Climate change has moved from a contested phenomenon to the top of the agenda at global summits. Climate Change Biology is the first major textbook to address the critical issue of how climate change may affect life on the planet, and particularly its impact on human populations. Presented in three parts, the first deals extensively with the physical evidence of climate change and various modelling efforts to predict its future. Biological responses are then addressed from the individual's physiology to populations and ecosystems, and further to considering adaptation and evolution. The final section examines the specific impact climate change may have on natural resources, particularly as these relate to human livelihood. This volume will be a useful asset to the growing number of both undergraduate and graduate courses on impacts of climate change, as well as providing a succinct overview for researchers new to the field.

Science & Math

Newman, Jonathan A.

Gedalof, Ze'ev

Hunt, Shelley L.

Henry, Hugh A. L.

Biological Sciences

CABI

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