Warm tenderness and fiery critique sit side-by-side in Bolina\'s English as A Second Language , a collection that skewers, laments, and celebrates America with intelligence, humility, and a disarming sense of humor.
Forwards, backwards, English as a Second Language skewers, laments, and celebrates America with intelligence and humility..
Clues offer the possibility of an alternate reading, where backwards, a new emotional arc appears--dreamlike, the nostalgic origin story of a sleep-deprived parent tracing a path through Language and history.
Bolina\'s musical Poems zip across time, challenging the fixity of the book.
Where the collection asks, What chance do any of us have?, the poet finds hope, possibility.
From elegy to persona, wide-ranging Poems tell the story of a child of immigrants becoming a parent against the tumultuous backdrop of our politics and culture.
What remains is the kaleidoscopic image of the modern American condition.
Coated in an armor of wit and humor and steeped in the idiosyncrasies of language, English as a Second Language pits sentimentality against cynicism and the personal against the national.
In Jaswinder Bolina\'s English as A Second Language and Other Poems , we are asked to imagine the tender and harsh realities of this world within a single breath-- a Steiff monkey resting next to a child in a crib and the tired hands of a thousand /women in Sidi Bouzid assembling the stuffed animal.
Warm tenderness and fiery critique sit side-by-side in Bolina\'s English as A Second Language , a collection that skewers, laments, and celebrates America with intelligence, humility, and a disarming sense of humor
