Anthropocene : Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation

Sen, Sudeep

ISBN 10: 1913738388 / ISBN 13: 9781913738389

Editore: Rann Books & Media, Pippa, 2022

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Riassunto:

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: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation 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.

I see Anthropocene as part of a larger sociocultural force, of which the pandemic is one of many crises.

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'."

Informazioni sull?autore:

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).

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Titolo: Anthropocene : Climate Change, Contagion, ...
Casa editrice: Rann Books & Media, Pippa
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Very Good