Jaswinder Bolina

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Jaswinder Bolina


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Jaswinder Bolina is an American poet. He is the author of the chapbook The Tallest Building in America and a book of essays Of Color. His full-length poetry collections are Carrier Wave; Phantom Camera, which won the Green Rose Prize in Poetry from New Issues Poetry & Prose; and The 44th of July.

Average rating: 4.2 · 647 ratings · 111 reviews · 10 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Measure of Belonging: Wri...

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4.28 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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Of Color

4.39 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions
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English as a Second Languag...

3.77 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions
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The 44th of July

3.93 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2019
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Phantom Camera

4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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Carrier Wave

4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Small Blows Against Encroac...

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A Sense of Regard: Essays o...

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CREDO: An Anthology of Mani...

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The Tallest Building in Ame...

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“My parents already know I'm bereft of their culture, that their son is almost as Frank or Bill as any other American, but they also believe this is necessary: that if their son is to become president, it won't happen while he is wearing a turban. They're willing to surrender their culture in order to assure my success, which means the price of my inclusion here is our alienation from each other.”
Jaswinder Bolina, Of Color

“Shifting demographics are cited as evidence of the continued dimishment of white thriving. The arrival of minorities where they haven't been permitted or expected before--in the White House, on television, in literary journals, at book award ceremonies--are framed as coming at the expense of white achievement. But the losses of one white person, or even of several white people, don't represent the losses of all white people. To see evidence of a systemic conspiracy in a person of color's asecnsion to any position once held exclusively by white people, exclusively for white people, is to mistake the outlier for the system. Rather than acknowledging my experiences of racist abuse or anyone else's rather than confronting the real threats people of color in this country face daily, the claim to reverse racism creates a false equivalency between subjugation and inconvenience.”
Jaswinder Bolina, Of Color

“The white masters, masters though they may be, are oblivious to those experiences of bigotry and exclusion that are condemnably common for the rest of us. In this essential matter, those writers of the literary canon are utterly ignorant, and so their reports on the human condition are gapingly incomplete. And still there are critics who argue that lyricism is a finished thing, that a white account of the self is a sufficiently universal contemplation, that any emphasis on race will only diminish its universality.”
Jaswinder Bolina, Of Color

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