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.'