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Of Color

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 U.S. 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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 134
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781944211868
  • Genres
  • essays
  • Release date
  • 2020