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    System and Population
    System and Population
    System and Population
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    System and Population

    By Christopher Sindt

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    Christopher Sindt’s System and Population returns to the primary theme of Sindt’s earlier collection, The Bodies: the impact of human desire on the natural world. System and Population focuses on the proposed damming of the American River canyon in northern California—working with source texts such as geologic studies, government documents, and the diaries of gold miners—to study the intersections of personal experience, scientific study, and the politics of rivers and dams. It is a personal eco-poetics that embraces the tradition of the lyric, experimenting with collage and the explicit inclusion of historic and scientific data. System and Population meditates on human experiences, such as parenthood and loss, and also studies the dissociative effects of environmental damage and disaster
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParlor Press, LLC
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781602358881
    System and Population
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    Christopher Sindt

    CHRISTOPHER SINDT is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary's College of California, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and serves as the Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Studies. He is the author of The Bodies (Parlor Press, 2012) and the chapbook, The Land of Give and Take (Momotombo Press, 2002).

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