{"product_id":"what-he-did-in-solitary-poems","title":"What He Did in Solitary: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe prize-winning poet reflects on what sustains us in a sundered 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.\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEqually engaged with human history and the human heart, Majmudar transfigures identity from a locus of captivity to the open field of his liberation. In pieces that include a stunning central sequence, \"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--often with dark comedy--the fragility of the soul, the unchartability of pain, and the reasons we sing and grieve and make war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll-American and multitudinously alone, dancing in his confinement, Majmudar 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.\"","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54418517885233,"sku":"9780525656517","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/3922\/2065\/files\/imageloader_f192d196-7332-4ec0-9270-8f5e3c595e24.jpg?v=1780536335","url":"https:\/\/bainbridgeisland.press\/products\/what-he-did-in-solitary-poems","provider":"Bainbridge Island Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}