{"product_id":"majmudar-amit-dothead","title":"Majmudar, Amit: Dothead","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnopf, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 20, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA captivating, no-holds-barred collection of new poems from an acclaimed poet and novelist with a fierce and original voice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDothead\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eDothead\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817221763095,"sku":"9781101947098","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/61FV77OUNOL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773961598","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/majmudar-amit-dothead","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}