Jaswinder Bolina, Author University Press of Colorado $16.95 (84p) ISBN 978-1-885635-09-9
Bolina's debut concerns itself with the lapse between language and reality: a lofty theme, for sure, and one that is often tackled in poetry-perhaps in every poem-with varying degrees of success. Bolina proclaims with great confidence, ""I move on...
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Jaswinder Bolina. New Issues (SPD, dist.), $15 (96p) ISBN 978-1-936970-13-1
As full of candor and ontological inquiry as they are of verve, panache, and wit, the poems in Bolina’s second collection stretch and dilate, in order to, as the author puts it, “feel so attached—like a ligament—to the whole shebang of human...
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Jaswinder Bolina. Omnidawn, $17.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-63243-064-9
The third collection from Bolina (Phantom Camera) is rich with the voices of those who have been made to feel “other” in America. A twist on the classic Greek chorus comes together to challenge hegemony: “I arrived in via wormhole,/ via subspace,...
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Jaswinder Bolina. Copper Canyon, $17 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-55659-657-5
“I’m trying to say something that feels like hearing/ your voice for the first time,” writes Bolina (The 44th of July) in this elegiac collection. “It isn’t working,” he declares, though the effort allows for strange and delightful observations...
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