Dothead: Poems Majmudar AmitPaperback
A captivating, no-holds-barred collection of new poems from an acclaimed poet and novelist with a fierce and original voiceDothead is an exploration of selfhood both intense and exhilarating. Within…
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A captivating, no-holds-barred collection of new poems from an acclaimed poet and novelist with a fierce and original voiceDothead 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
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