The 44th of July / Jaswinder Bolina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolina, Jaswinder, 1978- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

81 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Forty-fourth of July

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : Omnidawn Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

"In The 44th of July, Jaswinder Bolina offers bracing and often humorous reflections on American culture through the lens of an alienated outsider at a deliberately uncomfortable distance that puts the oddities of the culture on full display. Exploring the nuances of life in an America that doesn't treat you as one of its own, yet whose benefits still touch your life, these exquisitely crafted poems sing in a kaleidoscopic collaging of language the mundane, yet surreal experience of being in between a cultural heritage of migration and poverty and daily life in a discriminatory yet prosperous nation. Both complicit in global capitalism and victims of the inequality that makes it possible, these are the Americans who are caught in a system with no clear place for them. Bolina opens the space to include the excluded, bringing voice and embodied consciousness to experiences that are essential to Americanness, but get removed from view in the chasms between self and other, immigrant and citizen"--Amazon.

Contents:

Country, Western p. 15

Primary Poem p. 18

Pornography with Americana p. 19

Supremacy p. 20

Partisan Poem p. 22

Inaugural Ball p. 24

Marvel, Universe p. 26

Love Song of the Assimilated p. 29

Story in a White Diction p. 32

Prepping the Exile p. 34

Letter to a Drone Pilot p. 36

Courting the Jihadi p. 38

We Bystander p. 40

Rubble Causeway, Rubble Clinic p. 43

Epistemic Love Poem p. 46

Texting the Beloved p. 48

The Wedding Poem p. 50

New Adventures in Sci-fi p. 53

The Bar Poem p. 55

In Memory of My Vices p. 56

Ekphrastic Poem p. 59

What We Call a Mountain in the Valley, They Call a Hill on the Mountain p. 60

Caterpillar p. 63

The Tallest Building in America p. 66

Sélection de Vin de Proprietaires p. 68

Station p. 70

Second Variation on a Theme by César Vailejo p. 72

Guernica p. 75

Self-portrait as a Gene Sequence p. 77

Washington B.C. p. 80.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781632430649

1632430649

OCLC:

1050454096

Publisher Number:

99982750177