Daughter Isotope
Daughter Isotope is a book of “hybrid” poems that speaks to multiple iterations of “daughter” tropes across generations, national borders, and timescales.
Central to the question of the Daughter Isotope is: What is a collective archive? within a global, disparate, migrant cultural space. DI is organized in a series of four “clouds,” calling up the vague, penetrable borders of our digital lives, both searching and searchable.
Vidhu Aggarwal
Vidhu Aggarwal (she/they) has a poetry and multimedia practice that engage with world-building, video, and graphic media.
Their poetry book, The Trouble with Humpadori (2016), imagines a cosmic mythological space for marginalized transnational subjects.
In her latest poetry book Daughter Isotope (OS 2021), she engages in “cloud poetics” as a way of thinking about personal, collective, and digital archives as a collaborative process with comic artists, dancers, and video artists.
"A volume of delicious excess, a dizzying variety of textures, sounds, wounds, and caresses that simultaneously charm and blind..."
— Ronaldo V. Wilson
Featured Work
Three Poem-Films as part of Action Book’s poetry-film series, Accelerants, curated by Paul Cunningham
“Flailing in the Cracks” review-essay examining Lauren Berlant’s concept of “genre flail” in contemporary experimental writing
“The Book of Books” a poem in Poetry, April 2021