Poetry is almost religion for me.
I read some nearly every night. So, when I read about Ohio’s first poet laureate (who is also a radiologist) in the May 2016 issue of Columbus Monthly, I had to go out and buy Amit Majmudar’s book, Dothead.
I am so glad I did.
I read Dothead three times through. Every poem contains a surprise, an energy and imagery unique unto itself, a satisfying aha or hah! at the end.
This little book of 100 pages and 64 poems is diversity personified. It is a cultural tour by one who has felt the questions, hurts and challenges of everyday discrimination, one who reified these into meditations on the ironies and beauties of everyday life, and who has finally melded the myths and insights of religions he was and was not born into to create new meanings for things you never thought possible.
I shall remember his “Crocodile Porn” with a smile, his musings on Michelangelo “In a Gallery” with a sharp intake of air, his ode to heme iron in FE through the line, “this iron oar of the Ferryman” with envy.
Consider this line, “How much salt must a lover sweat to earn his sugar?”
Read it and see.
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