Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar is a widely published poet, translator, novelist, and essayist. His forthcoming poetry collection is Kill List (Knopf, 2020), and his most recent book in the United States is Godsong: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary (Knopf, 2018). Recent and forthcoming novels published by Penguin Random House India include Sitayana and Soar. Ohio's former first Poet Laureate, his poetry and prose have appeared in multiple The Best American Poetry anthologies, The Best American Essays 2018, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017, as well as The Norton Introduction to Literature among other textbooks. He works as a diagnostic nuclear radiologist in Westerville, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Reading List
Prison Suite
1. What he Did in Solitary Named all the state capitals Sang as much of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as he had tattooed on his eardrums, which was all of it Tugged, instead of magician’s scarves, blinking Christmas lights from somewhere deep inside him And strung them in spirals up and down his […]