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Dothead : poems / Amit Majmudar.
Van Pelt Library PS3613.A3536 A6 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Majmudar, Amit, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian Americans--Poetry.
- East Indian Americans.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 104 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- 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." -- Amazon.com
- Contents:
- Kedgeree Ingredients
- Dothead 3
- The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim 4
- T.S.A. 5
- ODE to a Drone 6
- Dynasty 7
- The Illuminator 8
- The Interrogation 9
- Immigration and Naturalization 10
- Training Course 12
- Kills Hot 14
- The Enduring Appeal of the Western Canon 16
- To the Hyphenated Poets 17
- The Star-Spangled Turban 19
- Winged Words 21
- His Love of Semicolons 22
- Steep Ascension 23
- The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up 26
- Rune Poem 27
- Horse Apocalypse 30
- Abecedarian 32
- Sex 43
- To Anne Sexton 44
- Love Song for Doomed Youth 46
- The Doll 47
- Crocodile Porn 48
- Joint Effort 50
- The Top 52
- Save the Candor 53
- The Metamorphosis 55
- Lineage 57
- Welcome Home, Troops! 59
- Are You Hungry? 60
- Taste Bud Sonzal 61
- Dystopiary 62
- 1914: The Name Game 63
- Black Hands 65
- James Bond Suite 67
- 1 The Astronomy of Bond Girls 67
- 2 The Short and Happy Life of Plenty O'Toole 67
- 3 Hymn to Sean Connery 69
- In a Gallery 71
- Et Tu 73
- Logomachia 74
- a Neuroscience 74
- b Erasure of the Final Scene of King Lear (I) 74
- b Erasure of the Final Scene of King Lear (II) 76
- a Radiology 77
- c Stem Cells 78
- d Heretical Fugue 79
- d Shadow-Cross Fugue 80
- c Pandemic Ghazal 81
- e The Waltz of Descartes and Mohammed 82
- f FE 83
- g Holy 84
- g Devolution 85
- f "There Fell A Great Star" 87
- e Hide and Seek 88
- Augustine the Hippo 90
- Rimbaud in Harar 91
- Recombinant Fairy Tale 94
- Kennewick Man Elegy 96
- Pattern and Snarl 97
- From the Egg 98
- Invocation 100.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi book."
- ISBN:
- 9781101947074
- 1101947071
- 9781101947098
- 1101947098
- OCLC:
- 909883368
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