Dothead

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.

O colectie captivanta, fara restrictii, de poezii noi de la un poet si romancier aclamat, cu o voce feroce si originala, Dothead este o explorare a egoismului, atat intensa, cat si exaltanta. In primele pagini, Amit Majmudar afirma atat afirmatiile sinelui, cat si ale celuilalt: poezia din titlu ne arata locul unui adolescent indian american in inconjuratia blanda a unui grup de colegi mai ales albi, care iau parte din imagini din traditia hindusa a poetului; urmatorul poem este o autobiografie fantezista, bazandu-se pe imagini pe traditia religioasa a Islamului.