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Elementary Particles
About this book
Longlist 2024 Raymond Souster Award
Part family history, part scientific exploration, Elementary Particles examines the world through the lens of a daughter grieving the loss of her beloved father.
Through keen, quiet observation, Sneha Madhavan-Reese's evocative new collection takes us from the wide expanse of rural India to the minute map of Michigan we carry on the palms of our hands. These poems contemplate ancestral language, the wonder and uncertainty of scientific discovery, the resilience of a dung beetle, the fleeting existence of frost flowers on the Arctic Ocean.
The collection is full of familiar characters, from Rosa Parks to Seamus Heaney to Corporal Nathan Cirillo, anchoring it in specific moments in time and place, but has the universality that comes from exploring the complex relationship between a child and her immigrant parents, and in turn, a mother and her children. Elementary Particles examines the building blocks of a life — the personal, family, and planetary histories, transformations, and losses we all experience.
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Table of contents
- 11Elementary Particles
- 19Rosa Parks
- 20Mapping
- 21Guruvayoor
- 23Teachings
- 24To Thousand Island
- 25My Ramayana
- 26Thoppil Bhasi
- 27Etymology
- 28Four
- 31On the First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves
- 32Professor Daniel S. Kemp
- 33Taxicab Numbers
- 35Galgo Sitting
- 36Jagannath
- 37Playing Dice with God
- 38Kangaroo Conservation
- 40Still Life with Tapers
- 41Synapse
- 43Seamus Heaney
- 47Cosmology
- 49The First Time
- 50Robert Pinsky
- 51Save Our Stories
- 52John Sharp Cromeans
- 53Coming Home in the Rain
- 54Mid-Life
- 55Nathan Cirillo
- 56Immortality
- 58Nuchal Hand
- 59Frenulum of Tongue
- 60Scaphocephaly
- 61Let Me Tell You a Story
- 62Samsara
- 63Dung Beetles
- 67Ritual
- 68Free Fall
- 69My Mother Never Speaks Her Fears
- 70My Father Comes to Me in a Dream
- 71My Husband Asks If I Am Sad
- 72Little Song from the Kitchen Table
- 73I Invoke My Father’s Ghost
- 74I Think of Dad While Buying a Sandwich
- 75Sing Me an Indian Song
- 76Frost Flowers
- 78Notes
- 80Acknowledgements