PreviewsJaspreet Singh
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Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock
Jaspreet Singh
Exploring language – the power of sound, silence, translation – climate, migration, and deep time, including this current Anthropocene, these poems weave the personal, local, global, and geologic to give a clear-eyed but also a wonderstruck and hopeful vision of the world today and in the future.
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How to Hold a Pebble
Jaspreet Singh
To learn again how to hold a pebble, how to negotiate human and non-human relationships, how to live one’s life in the Anthropocene – these are some of the concerns of this collection of poems that address everyday objects and global interactions, that explore memory, language, climate change, and colonization.
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My Mother, My Translator
Jaspreet Singh
This memoir in essays follows the men and especially the women of Singh’s family, from the 1918 epidemic, through the 1947 Partition of India, Singh’s childhood in Kashmir and with his grandparents in Indian Punjab to his arrival in Canada in 1990 to study the sciences, and up to the pandemic of 2020, as he explores personal relationships, inherited and direct trauma, and ways to deal with the climate crisis.
