Dreaming of Endangered Species by Anand Prahlad
Dreaming of Endangered Species explores issues of health and illness, disability and cure, and human frailty and vulnerability in an age of global unease and uncertainty. It maps a tension between the infinite and finite, between the concrete and ethereal. In some ways, it is a celebration of the mundane, by which I mean the world of everyday objects, of plants and animals, scents, textures, movements, water, and phases of the moon. But interwoven with this testament to ineffable beauty, this celebratory mode, are reflections on my cancer, for example, my autistic strivings, my gender queer identity, and the plight of the natural world. A recurrent thread that runs through the manuscript is the idea of dreaming, which offers a kind of poetic membrane, a connective tissue that softens some of the weighty concerns and allows them a more muted resonance than they might otherwise have.
Prahlad, Anand: - Anand Prahlad is director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and the author of two books of poems, Hear My Song and Other Poems and As Good as Mango.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781622889280 |
| ISBN 10 | 1622889282 |
| Title | Dreaming of Endangered Species |
| Author | Anand Prahlad |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stephen F. Austin State University Press |
| Year published | 2023-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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