Dothead : poems / Amit Majmudar
- Author:
- Majmudar, Amit
- Uniform Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Published:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2016
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 104 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Majmudar, Amit. Selections
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: KEDGEREE INGREDIENTS -- Dothead -- The Autobiography Of Khwaja Mustasim -- T.S.A. -- Ode To A Drone -- Dynasty -- The Illuminator -- The Interrogation -- Immigration And Naturalization -- Training Course -- Killshot -- The Enduring Appeal Of The Western Canon -- To The Hyphenated Poets -- The Star-Spangled Turban -- Winged Words -- His Love Of Semicolons -- Steep Ascension -- The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up -- Rune Poem -- Horse Apocalypse -- Abecedarian -- Sex -- To Anne Sexton -- Love Song For Doomed Youth -- The Doll -- Crocodile Porn -- Joint Effort -- The Top -- Save The Candor -- The Metamorphosis -- Lineage -- Welcome Home, Troops! -- Are You Hungry? -- Taste Bud Sonzal -- Dystopiary -- 1914: The Name Game -- Black Hands -- James Bond Suite -- 1.The Astronomy Of Bond Girls -- 2.The Short And Happy Life Of Plenty O'Toole -- 3.Hymn To Sean Connery -- In A Gallery -- Et Tu -- Logomachia -- a.Neuroscience -- b.Erasure Of The Final Scene Of King Lear (I) -- b.Erasure Of The Final Scene Of King Lear (II) -- a.Radiology -- c.Stem Cells -- d.Heretical Fugue -- d.Shadow-Cross Fugue -- c.Pandemic Ghazal -- e.The Waltz Of Descartes And Mohammed -- f.Fe -- g.Holy -- g.Devolution -- f."There Fell A Great Star" -- e.Hide And Seek -- Augustine The Hippo -- Rimbaud In Harar -- Recombinant Fairy Tale -- Kennewick Man Elegy -- Pattern And Snarl -- From The Egg -- Invocation.
- Summary:
- "Dothead is an exploration of selfhood both intense and exhilarating. Within the first pages, Amit Majmudar asserts the claims of both the self and the other: the title poem shows us the place of an Indian American teenager in the bland surround of a mostly white peer group, partaking of imagery from the poet's Hindu tradition; the very next poem is a fanciful autobiography, relying for its imagery on the religious tradition of Islam. From poems about the treatment at the airport of people who look like Majmudar ('my dark unshaven brothers / whose names overlap with the crazies and God fiends') to a long, freewheeling abecedarian poem about Adam and Eve and the discovery of oral sex, Dothead is a profoundly satisfying cultural critique and a thrilling experiment in language. United across a wide range of tones and forms, the poems inhabit and explode multiple perspectives, finding beauty in every one." --
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- ISBN:
- 9781101947074 hardcover
1101947071 hardcover
9781101947098
1101947098 - Note:
- "This is a Borzoi book."
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