Zero Degrees, Zero Degrees 0°, 0° Poems
Majmudar, Amit
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press (2009)
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Poet
Medical
Softcover 9780810126268
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LoC Classification PS3613.A3536 .A613 2009
LoC Control Number 2009008617
Dewey 811/.6
Nationality American
No. of Pages 73
Height x Width 8.7  inch
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Purchase Price $24.95
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Conflict Iraq
Notes
He is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in Nuclear Medicine practicing full-time in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife Ami and his twin sons, Shiv and Savya. He worked with the wounded returning from the Middle East War at Walter Reed Medical Center


His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,[1] Image,[2] Poetry, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review,[3] The New England Review, Smartish Pace.[4]

"Includes "Letter to the Infrantry" and "Cherry Blossums at Walter Reed"

0° , 0° is where the equator and prime meridian cross, but it is also, in Amit Majmudar’s poetic cartography, “the one True Cross, the rood’s wood warped and tacked / pole to pole.” Unlikely intersections lie at the heart of Amit Majmudar’s first collection of poetry. Mythical, biblical, political, and scientific allusion thrive side by side, inspiring surprise and wonder. Majmudar’s training as a medical doctor is clearly at work as he is able to balance poetic forms requiring surgical precision—including the exceedingly difficult ghazal—with warmth and compassion for the world. Majmudar understands suffering on the large scale and the small, whether he is speaking up for the biblical character Job and “answering the whirlwind,” or tallying the human cost of war at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.