Description
| Product ID: | 9781101947098 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Dothead |
| Subtitle: | Poems |
| Authors: | Author: Amit Majmudar |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Alfred A Knopf |
| Publisher Name: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-03-20 |