LEADER 01274pam 2200133 a 4500
001 939585
005 20190426092822.0
008 190514s2016 nyu g 000 0 eng d
020 $a9781101947098 (pbk.) :$cNT$630
082 04$a811.6$222
100 1 $aMajmudar, Amit.
245 10$aDothead :$bpoems /$cAmit Majmudar.
246 30$aPoems.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2016.
300 $aix, 104 pages ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $a"Dothead is an exploration of selfhood both intense and exhilarating. Within the first pages, Amit Majmudar asserts the claims of both the self and the other: the title poem shows us the place of an Indian American teenager in the bland surround of a mostly white peer group, partaking of imagery from the poet's Hindu tradition; the very next poem is a fanciful autobiography, relying for its imagery on the religious tradition of Islam. From poems about the treatment atthe airport of people who look like Majmudar ('my dark unshaven brothers / whose names overlap with the crazies and God fiends') to a long, freewheeling abecedarian poem about Adam and Eve and the discovery of oral sex, Dothead is a profoundly satisfying cultural critique and a thrilling experiment in language. United across a wide range of tones and forms, the poems inhabit and explode multiple perspectives, finding beauty in every one." -- Amazon.com
650 0$aEast Indian Americans$vPoetry.
650 0$aPoetry.