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In his debut essay collection, award-winning poet Jaswinder Bolina meditates on how race, as he puts it, becomes metaphysical: the cumulative toll of the microaggressions and macro-pressures lurking in the academic market, on the literary circuit, in the dating pool, and on the sidewalks of any given US city. Training a keenly thoughtful lens on questions that are never fully abstract--about immigration and assimilation and class, about the political utility of art, about what it means to belong to a language and a nation that brand you as other--Of Color is a bold, expansive, and finally optimistic diagnosis of present-day America.

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Jaswinder Bolina is an American poet and essayist. His new book of poems The 44th of July was published by Omnidawn Publishing in April 2019. His previous collections include Phantom Camera (winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry), Carrier Wave (winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry), 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. They have also appeared in anthologies including the fourteenth edition of The Norton Reader, Language: A Reader for Writers, and Poets on Teaching. He teaches on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Miami. Jaswinder Bolina is an American poet and essayist. His new book of poems The 44th of July was published by Omnidawn Publishing in April 2019. His previous collections include Phantom Camera (winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry), Carrier Wave (winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry), 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. They have also appeared in anthologies including the fourteenth edition of The Norton Reader, Language: A Reader for Writers, and Poets on Teaching. He teaches on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Miami.

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