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Glitchwork traces a jagged lineage of Central India, building from traditions of Indian modernism and reckoning with the spectres of the 1984 Bhopal Disaster. The collection is situated in a timeless, forested grid, poised on the verge of industrial erasure.
This grid, a restless site of extraction and production, brims with potential for lushness, fey ambience, petite clearings, what the collection calls, 'gridline sublime'. Its three long poems consist of fragments on a mysterious Cold War 'plant', remixes of Surdas (the medieval-Braj poet), notes on palaeolithic hands, philology of the line, anomalies in a lunar-roving vehicle, and the origin myths of Raipur.
