A New Index For Predicting Catastrophes

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Originating from her living room, backyard garden, university office, or the field sites in boreal or tropical forests, the poems in this debut collection by Madhur Anand compose a lyric science; they bring together order and chaos into a unified theory of predicting catastrophes, large and small. Anand is an ecologist whose poetics are sophisticated and original, and her voice is an index,' a way of cataloguing and measuring the world and human experience.'

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In Madhur Anands poems the ancient false dichotomy between art and science collapses, and does so with such grace, wit, and lan youd 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 poets 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 Prizewinning author of Strike/Slip

"Anand's exquisitely crafted debut poetry collection combines scientific, observational, socially conscious, haunting and reflexively personal, and almost Romantic strains into a cohesive, captivating whole. . . . [A] seemingly effortless, deeply humanist sleight of hand. . . . 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." --Publisher's Weekly

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MADHUR ANAND's poetry has appeared in literary magazines across North America and in the anthology The Shape of Content- Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes was published by McClelland & Stewart in April 2015 to international acclaim. "Anand's attention to and ability to evoke explicit, exponential beauty in scientific and natural form are simply stunning" (Publishers Weekly). Anand completed her Ph.D. in theoretical ecology at Western University, and is currently a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph and interim Director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation.