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Ghost Tracks
Ghost Tracks, published by Louisiana Literature Press delves into the epistemology of the word ghosts, and embodies several pluralities. The book explores migration, climate collapse, ecology, and violence. The poems in this book trace how ambivalent attitudes toward the body extend to a similar connotation about earth. Cognitive biology taught in school often disregards the fact that “human beings” belong to the Kingdom of Animalia. This internalizes correlations where sites of erasure make way as opposed to agency. Ghost Tracks is a singing of both; the active and subterranean.
30 pages, Paperback
Published December 15, 2020
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About the author
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
10 books12 followersSneha Subramanian Kanta is a writer and academic from Canada. She is the author of the chapbooks Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press, 2020), Ancestral-Wing (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming), and Every Elegy Is A Love Poem (Variant Lit, forthcoming). A finalist for the 2024 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, her work titled "Hiraeth" is published with Apple Books and Penguin Random House Canada as an audiobook. A 2024 Tin House Workshop Scholar, she is a Resident Artist at Deer Lake Artist Residencies run by the city of Burnaby. She is a recipient of a scholarship from the 2023 Rutgers-Camden Poets and Scholars Retreat from Rutgers University.
She is a recipient of The 2022 Digital Residency at The Seventh Wave, and The 2021 Robert Hayden Scholarship from Stockton University. She has been awarded the first Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She is a recipient of the Charles Wallace Fellowship 2019-20 at the University of Stirling. An awardee of the GREAT scholarship, she has earned a second postgraduate degree in literature from the University of Plymouth (2017). Her dissertation concentrated on a comparative literature analysis of postcolonial ecocriticism in the fiction and nonfiction of Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal.
Her multi-genre work has appeared in Room Magazine, UBC's PRISM international, Pleaides, The Willowherb Review, Palette Poetry, The Minnesota Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her work is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Meridian, Geist, Humber Literary Review, Sheridan's The Ampersand Review, and elsewhere. Her poem “A Song of Remembrance for Somebody” has been broadcast on Illinois Public Radio. Her poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, The Orison Anthology, Best New Poets, and Bettering American Poetry.
Her work is anthologized in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets (ed. Jeet Thayil) published by the Penguin Random House imprint India Hamish Hamilton, 2022. Her work appears in transnational anthologies such as Suvarnarekha (ed. Dr. Nandini Sahu) published by The Poetry Society of India, 2014. She is the author of the chapbook Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press, 2020). Her chapbook Ancestral–Wing is forthcoming with Porkbelly Press.
Postcolonial literature, ecological studies, and creative writing in poetry and nonfiction are her areas of research interests. She loves horses, blue oceans, places not on maps, and autumn.
She is a recipient of The 2022 Digital Residency at The Seventh Wave, and The 2021 Robert Hayden Scholarship from Stockton University. She has been awarded the first Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She is a recipient of the Charles Wallace Fellowship 2019-20 at the University of Stirling. An awardee of the GREAT scholarship, she has earned a second postgraduate degree in literature from the University of Plymouth (2017). Her dissertation concentrated on a comparative literature analysis of postcolonial ecocriticism in the fiction and nonfiction of Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal.
Her multi-genre work has appeared in Room Magazine, UBC's PRISM international, Pleaides, The Willowherb Review, Palette Poetry, The Minnesota Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her work is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Meridian, Geist, Humber Literary Review, Sheridan's The Ampersand Review, and elsewhere. Her poem “A Song of Remembrance for Somebody” has been broadcast on Illinois Public Radio. Her poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, The Orison Anthology, Best New Poets, and Bettering American Poetry.
Her work is anthologized in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets (ed. Jeet Thayil) published by the Penguin Random House imprint India Hamish Hamilton, 2022. Her work appears in transnational anthologies such as Suvarnarekha (ed. Dr. Nandini Sahu) published by The Poetry Society of India, 2014. She is the author of the chapbook Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press, 2020). Her chapbook Ancestral–Wing is forthcoming with Porkbelly Press.
Postcolonial literature, ecological studies, and creative writing in poetry and nonfiction are her areas of research interests. She loves horses, blue oceans, places not on maps, and autumn.
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December 29, 2020
an absolutely lovely year-end read from Sneha whose poetry I always admire and this chapbook confirms that she is growing to be one of the best. Every poem transports me to a new place full of wonderful and convincing imagery and metophors.the recurring ghost in the chapbook is a theme that needs digging into, for every ghost brings a new experience to the poem, some nostalgic, some mystery, some sympathetic, all wrapped in her vivid and concise language.My favortie poems in it are ghost in empty houses and Illumination order for specis hunting, i wish i were a better reader and critic to express my excitement about these two poems and about this chapbook in general, lines such as "ghost shifts weather into windess trees/a house echoing an emptiness onto itself/like ocean folding into ocean untill it reaches/a shore" simlply wows me and this chapbook is full of amazing lines like this. I know i'll return to this chapbook many times and each time i will find something to marve at and to learn from !
January 8, 2021
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