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Things my grandmother said : poems / Amit Majmudar.
Van Pelt Library PS3613.A3536 T48 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Majmudar, Amit, Author.
- Standardized Title:
- Things my grandmother said (Compilation) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/edafc6a0-b584-b58b-1df9-c2d0f32560bc
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Poetry.
- Women.
- Femininity--Poetry.
- Femininity.
- Love poetry, American.
- Mothers and sons--Poetry.
- Mothers and sons.
- Grandmothers--Poetry.
- Grandmothers.
- Group identity--Poetry.
- Group identity.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 101 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2026.
- Summary:
- A collection of poems by Amit Majmudar exploring the influence of women on the poet's life and creative development. Drawing inspiration from family relationships, romantic partnership, marriage, and spiritual traditions, the poems reflect on memory, love, identity, language, and cultural heritage. The collection examines the role of feminine figures in shaping personal experience and artistic expression.
- Contents:
- Things my grandmother said
- Matriarchy
- The braid
- Cat's cradle
- Creeping phlox
- A widower
- Mother country
- Hymn to wonder woman
- Regeneration
- Ovid in exile, stargazing
- The mathematician's next life
- An American nurse foresees her death
- The migration diary of Hala Almasi
- Bleachflood
- More things my grandmother said
- Gooseflesh
- Horoscope
- Fraṅoise and her lovers
- Recourse
- In the house of the frost giant
- Nocturne
- Ardhanarishvara
- Meteorology
- The diwan
- Remote work
- Litcoin
- Reincarnation
- Poem meant to be folded
- Constancy
- Story of the creation
- Charmed life
- School of witchcraft and wizardry
- Birth of the poet
- Reading
- Critical theory
- Batborn
- Handedness
- Patronage
- Medical school
- Unnatural intelligence
- State of being
- Half-life
- My mother tongue
- The signal fire
- We are all God's poems.
- Notes:
- "A borzoi book" - title page verso
- Other Format:
- Online version Majmudar, Amit. Things my grandmother said
- ISBN:
- 9780593803165
- 0593803167
- OCLC:
- 1522760424
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