Books / Projects
Arrow: Poems (Alice James Books/Carcanet Press, 2020)
“Chakraborty writes poems that are full of life and joy even when she is thinking about violence and grief, but in their sweep they defy easy notions of aboutness.” — Elisa Gabbert for the New York Times
Grave Dangers (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming)
Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene is a scholarly book project. It argues that Anthropocene studies needs to leave vitalism behind in favor of a more robust and diverse framework for contending with death in order to adequately address the racialized violence and ecological devastation that define the epoch.
The B-Sides of the Golden Record (in progress)
In 1977, NASA sent a record titled The Golden Record on the Voyager probes. It was meant to offer extraterrestrials a glimpse of life on Earth through sounds and images, and for a variety of reasons both intentional and unintentional, it left out quite a lot. This poetry manuscript is about the elisions.