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02135aam a2200301 i 4500 001 D1F8038E047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201002011536 008 191004t20202020nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2019042972 020 $a 0525656510 020 $a 9780525656517 035 $a (OCoLC)1122687176 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d JNE $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3613 A3536 W47 2020 100 1 $a Majmudar, Amit, $e author. 245 10 $a What he did in solitary : $b poems / $c Amit Majmudar. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 160 pages ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "This is a Borzoi book." 520 $a "The prize-winning poet reflects on our spiritual loneliness, and on the ties that both bind us and sustain us in a fractured world. With his dazzling ability to set words spinning, Amit Majmudar brings us poems that sharpen both wit and knives as he examines our "life in solitary." Dividing the book into short sections around themes (Identity, Love, Grief, Art, History, Imperialism, Incarceration), and anchoring it with the stunning long poem "Letters to Myself in My Next Incarnation," the poet is both the Huck and Jim of his own adventures. He is unafraid to face human failings: from Oxycontin addiction to Gujarat rioting, he examines the fragility of the soul, the unchartability of pain, the reasons we kill and grieve and make love, often with dark comedy. The ironies of his own American otherness supply a bass note throughout, but even in confinement, Amit is a poet of exuberance and transcendence: "What I love here, / Poems and women mostly, / I know you can't remember," he tells his future self, "But they were worthy of my love.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Majmudar, Amit, $b First edition. $t What he did in solitary $d New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. $z 9780525656524 $w (DLC) 2019042973 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103015730.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D1F8038E047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search