Jaswinder Bolina’s second book Phantom Camera has been awarded the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry by New Issues Press. Phantom Camera will be available in Spring 2013.
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“This, Jaswinder Bolina‘s first major volume of poetry, is a brilliant invention. With a delight that in no way denies the desperateness of the palimpsested circumstances in which the world is embedded, Bolina bears witness to `the crooning / of our life and times. // The compacted units / The impenetrable whole.’ In that last phrase, of course, we hear an echo from George Oppen’s Of Being Numerous, where he speaks of `the pure joy / Of the mineral fact // Tho it is impenetrable.’ But if he has Oppen’s sense of the unfathomable nature of what exists, he also displays in his work a polycultural erudition that bears comparison with that of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Jaswinder Bolina is a bard, and his Carrier Wave is a magisterial achievement.”
— Lyn Hejinian, author of The Fatalist, The Beginner, and My Life