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Dothead : Poems by Amit Majmudar (2018, Trade Paperback) Alfred A. Knopf
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Unread Publishers overstock in excellent condition. Remainder mark on text block edge.”
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Type
- Poetry
- ISBN
- 9781101947098
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101947098
ISBN-13
9781101947098
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242652388
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dothead : Poems
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American / Asian American, Subjects & Themes / Family, American / General
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-020310
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Supurb....inventive, playful....Majmudar finds poetry in the modern world where we least expect it."-- Bookpage "Especially perceptive about manhood and its meanings... Dothead is charming and urgent in equal measure." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Library Journal listed DOTHEAD as one of their Spring poetry picks of 2016 for "pointedly offering commentary on those who aren't always at home in America." " Dothead amounts to nothing less than a torrent of poetic inventiveness driven by the inexhaustible poetic energy of Amit Majmudar. His delight in deploying his formal skills combines remarkably with his wide range of interests to produce a collection of poetry both riveting and enviable. Drones, torture, immigration, weaponry, James Bond, King Lear, medical practice, Hinduism, and the sex life of Adam and Eve are but a few of the subjects treated here without any sacrifice of lyric texture or pulse. Majmudar stands out clearly and forcefully in the overpopulated tableau of contemporary American poetry." --Billy Collins "Readers new to Amit Majmudar's work will rejoice to find themselves in the company of a writer who clearly believes no poem can enlighten unless it first entertains. We are invariably surprised--by Kafkaesque fable or Borgesian paradox, by fluently rhymed verse, a calligramme, or some outrageous form of his own invention. However Majmudar has Hardy's knack of finding forms well suited to his subject, these wise, timely meditations on race, sex, language and identity leave us thinking about nothing more than the radical ideas they propose. All serve Majmudar's larger project--to reflect the uncomfortable complexity of the human animal. He has no hesitation in juxtaposing the serious and the grave, the base and the transcendent, and those acts of gentleness and brutality which define us; but his ability to turn on a dime will often have the reader laughing or shivering before he has a chance to prepare his defences. Majmudar has allied an old-fashioned talent to a real experimental boldness, but perhaps the most startling aspect of his work is its unapologetic assumption of poetry's intrinsic cultural value. One has the sense that every line simply believes in itself. The result is a various, wakeful, urgent poetry that asks to be read now." --Don Paterson From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Synopsis
A captivating, no-holds-barred collection of new poems from an acclaimed poet and novelist with a fierce and original voice 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., A captivating, no-holds-barred collection of new poems from an acclaimed poet and novelist with a fierce and original voice 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.
LC Classification Number
PS3613.A3536A6 2016
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