Edition |
First Restless Books hardcover edition. |
Description |
xiii, 344 pages ; 20.5 cm |
Contents |
Open the Door -- Home: Prolepsis -- Aji Recording: Bibah Kare -- My Eyes Are Clouds -- South Asian Language Summer -- Aji Recording: Dunce -- Evolution of a Song -- Bhabhua Village -- Neech -- Ganga Water -- Prayer -- Pap -- The Last Time I Cut, A Journal -- Antiman -- Aji Recording: How Will I Go -- Eh Bhai -- A Family Outing, Alternative Ending 1 -- A Family Outing, Alternative Ending 2 -- A Family Outing, Alternative Ending 3 -- Amazon River Dolphin -- Aji Recording: Song for the Lonely Season -- Leaving Florida -- Ardhanarishvaram Raga -- Mister Javier's Lesson Plan -- Islamophic Misreadings: Some Queens Definitions -- American Guyanese Diwali -- Aji Recording: Love Beat Handsome -- Sangam / Confluence -- The Lover and the Chapbook -- The Outside Workshop -- Brown Inclusion: Some Queens Definitions -- E Train to Roosevelt Ave Making All Local Stops in Queens -- Ganga and the Snake: A Fauxtale / Ganga aur Saamp -- Aji Recording: Asirbaad, Blessing -- The King and the Koyal: A Fauxtale / Raja aur Kokila -- My Veil's Stain -- Barsi: One Year Work -- Reincarnate -- Open the Door Reprise. |
Summary |
"Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir's Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultural heritage that have shaped his experiences as an Indo-Guyanese queer poet and immigrant to the United States."--Amazon.com. |
Awards |
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, 2019 |
Subject |
Mohabir, Rajiv.
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Poets, American -- Biography.
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Gay men -- Biography.
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Immigrants -- Biography.
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Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
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Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
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Poets, American. (OCoLC)fst01067794
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Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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ISBN |
9781632061683 (paperback) |
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1632061686 (paperback) |
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