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Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation
Winner of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22 Poetry, creative non-fiction and photographs weave feelings and ideas of isolation with larger global issues, politics, wars, and their consequent geopolitical/geological catastrophes. ANTHROPOCENE is a literary and artistic response to the most urgent issues that face humanity now -- climate change and the pandemic. It tackles the complexities head-on with honesty and sensitivity, without any compromise. Simultaneously engaging multiple genres -- creative non-fiction, essay, prose, poetry and photography -- the book interrogates our lives against the backdrop of a dangerously fraught and ever-changing landscape, on the emotional, physical, micro and macro levels. Amid all the negative noise in the world, Anthropocene is a quiet artistic offering -- a testament to our fervent times where the ever-increasing ravages of climate change scar humanity, where Fascist politics overrides the silence of introspection, where the cleaving schism between the rich and poor becomes ever-widening, where racism peaks at an all time high, where toxicity among people proliferates, and fake news abounds.Ultimately, Anthropocene is a plea for positivity and prayer -- it urges us to slow down, to introspect, to consume less. It is time once again to learn how to love selflessly and embrace "Hope, heed, heal -- our song, in present tense.""It all started with a news clip I stumbled upon almost 15 years ago, where the President of the Pacific island of Kiribati expressed his concern about his people becoming 'climate refugees', due to rising sea levels. Since then, it has been a gradual evolution of ideas and the recent pandemic accelerated my literary and artistic response to the climate conflicts. However, the book is not a doomed vision of the post-human world but a plea for slowing down, positivity, and an urge to embrace 'hope, heed, heal - our song, in present tense'.
Book Details
- Publisher: Pippa Rann Books
- Publish Date: Jan 1st, 2023
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.70in - 0.80in - 0.85lb
- EAN: 9781913738389
- Categories: • Subjects & Themes - Animals & Nature• Asian - General• Global Warming & Climate Change
About the Author
Translated into 25 languages, Sudeep Sen's works include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems, Fractals: New & Selected Poems/ Translations 1980-2015, EroText (Global Literary Festival Award for "Literary Excellence & Best Book of the Year" 2017;Rabindranath Tagore Literature Prize shortlist 2020); Rain ("Best Books of the Year", The Statesman), Aria(A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award 2009, "Best Books of the Year", Outlook magazine), andKaifi Azmi: Poems Nazms (Bloomsbury 2019).
Influential anthologies edited by him include The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, World English Poetry, and Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians, and his work has appeared in TLS, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, and Telegraph, and Newsweek, and been broadcast on the BBC, PBS, CNN, IBN, NDTV, All India Radio and Doordarshan.
Sen is the only Asian who has been honored by being asked to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and to read at the Nobel Laureate Festival (in 2013).
Praise for this book
"Deftly tackling urgent issues of climate change and the pandemic by subtly juxtaposing the sciences and the arts, Sudeep Sen's Anthropocene is one of the most important books of 2021." --The Hindustan Times "It is an effective zeitgeist of the current global crisis -- climate change and the pandemic, racism, and Fascism, ultimately ending on a note of hope and humanity. This book -- written in an urgent, intelligent, lyrical style -- is a literary tour de force." --Times of India "A mighty, ambitious work -- and it couldn't be more timely. There is a bounty of riches here, the mixed genres working harmoniously together as they enhance the overall argument. The voice carefully steps away from didacticism or rhetoric, finding beauty and grace in its journey across the pages." --Lavinia Singer, poetry editor, Faber & Faber "Lo, Anais Nin + Henry Miller! #India. Sudeep Sen." --Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) on EroText "Sudeep Sen's poems are a present which bring -- like all true poetry -- so much companionship." --John Berger "I was really happy to lose myself in the learned and intricate mosaic of prose-poems... . Your book really stayed with me -- for its evocation of rain, for its love of Japan, for its commitment to the writing life and for its freshness." --Pico Iyer on EroText "Gathers more than three decades of poetry from one of India's most technically gifted poets working in English. Sen's poetic scope and knowledge of form and metre will dazzle poetry lovers while drawing in more casual admirers with his sophistication of language and range of topics. Fractals is an important retrospective collection from a poet even now just reaching the height of his powers' - World Literature Today (USA) on Fractals