Jaswinder Bolina: The 44th of July

Meet
JASWINDER BOLINA
in conversation with P. SCOTT CUNNINGHAM
discussing
The 44th of July

Sunday, August 18, 4pm
Books & Books, Coral Gables

Please join us as we proudly present Jaswinder Bolina and his new poetry collection, The 44th of July (Omnidawn, $17.95). Here you will find 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.

Jaswinder Bolina is an American poet and essayist. His previous collections include Phantom Camera (winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry from New Issues Press), Carrier Wave (winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry from the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University), and the digital chapbook The Tallest Building in America. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and been included in The Best American Poetry series. He teaches on the faculty of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Miami.

Scott Cunningham (b. 1978) is a poet, translator, essayist, and community organizer originally from Boca Raton, FL. He is the author of Ya Te Veo (University of Arkansas Press, 2018), selected by Billy Collins for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. His work has appeared in The Awl, Harvard Review, POETRY, A Public Space, The Rumpus, Tupelo Quarterly, Monocle, RHINO, The Guardian, PANK, Electric Literature, and others. His translations of Alejandra Pizarnik, César Vallejo, and Frank Báez have appeared in OmniglotsH.O.W. Journal, Waxwing, and The Miami Rail.

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