4 Local Books For A Summer Read

By day, Ohio’s first poet laureate Amit Majmudar is a diagnostic nuclear radiologist in Columbus. By night, the Highland Heights native is a talented writer whose meter, rhyme, free verse and prose have been described as “nothing less than a torrent of poetic inventiveness” by former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins. “I’m pretty restless,” says Majmudar, whose latest collection, Dothead (Knopf, $26.95), touches on King Lear, immigration and the sex life of Adam and Eve. “This book has so much diversity that it ends up appealing to a lot of people,” he says. “I don’t have an agenda.”