English as a Second Language and Other Poems

Warm tenderness and fiery critique sit side-by-side in Bolina’s English as A Second Language , a collection that s kewers, laments, and celebrates America with intelligence, humility, and a disarming sense of humor. 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