A captivating, no-holds-barred collection of new poems from an acclaimed poet and novelist with a fierce and original voice
AMIT MAJMUDARis a diagnostic nuclear radiologist who lives in
Dublin, Ohio, with his wife and three children. His poetry and
prose have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The
Atlantic, The Best American Poetry (2007, 2012), The Best of the
Best American Poetry 1988-2012, Poetry, Poetry Daily, and several
other venues, including the eleventh edition of The Norton
Introduction to Literature. His first poetry collection, 0 , 0 ,
was a finalist for the 2009 Poetry Society of America's Norma
Farber First Book Award. His second poetry collection, Heaven and
Earth, won the 2011 Donald Justice Prize. The first poet laureate
for the state of Ohio, Majmudar blogs for the Kenyon Review and is
also a critically acclaimed novelist.
www.amitmajmudar.com
“Supurb….inventive, playful….Majmudar finds poetry in the modern
world where we least expect it.”—Bookpage
“Especially perceptive about manhood and its meanings…Dothead is
charming and urgent in equal measure.” —Dwight Garner, The
New York Times
Library Journal listed DOTHEAD as one of their Spring poetry
picks of 2016 for "pointedly offering commentary on those who
aren't always at home in America."
"Dothead amounts to nothing less than a torrent of poetic
inventiveness driven by the inexhaustible poetic energy of Amit
Majmudar. His delight in deploying his formal skills combines
remarkably with his wide range of interests to produce a collection
of poetry both riveting and enviable. Drones, torture, immigration,
weaponry, James Bond, King Lear, medical practice, Hinduism, and
the sex life of Adam and Eve are but a few of the subjects treated
here without any sacrifice of lyric texture or pulse.
Majmudar stands out clearly and forcefully in the overpopulated
tableau of contemporary American poetry.”—Billy Collins
“Readers new to Amit Majmudar’s work will rejoice to find
themselves in the company of a writer who clearly believes no
poem can enlighten unless it first entertains. We
are invariably surprised—by Kafkaesque fable or Borgesian
paradox, by fluently rhymed verse, a calligramme, or some
outrageous form of his own invention. However Majmudar has Hardy’s
knack of finding forms well suited to his subject,
these wise, timely meditations on race, sex, language and
identity leave us thinking about nothing more than the radical
ideas they propose. All serve Majmudar’s larger
project—to reflect the uncomfortable complexity of the
human animal. He has no hesitation
in juxtaposing the serious and the grave, the base and
the transcendent, and those acts of gentleness and brutality
which define us; but his ability to turn on a dime will
often have the reader laughing or shivering before he has a chance
to prepare his defences. Majmudar has allied an old-fashioned
talent to a real experimental boldness, but perhaps the
most startling aspect of his work is
its unapologetic assumption of poetry’s intrinsic
cultural value. One has the sense that every line simply believes
in itself. The result is a various, wakeful, urgent poetry
that asks to be read now.”—Don Paterson
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