What He Did in Solitary

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) a...