Phantom Camera

Jaswinder Bolina

'I haven't seen an ocean for years, but I know one's out there," states Bolina. In fact, it's here in Bolina's book, a veritable tidal wave of verse, lines spilling forth propulsively and carrying with them keen observation of the everyday, "the jamboree of a crosswalk". This Green Rose Prize winner is sophisticated but eminently embraceable, a tip-off of what's to come.' - The Library Journal

'As full of candour and ontological inquiry as they are of verve, panache, and wit, the poems in Bolina's second collection stretch and dilate, in order to, as the author puts it, "feel so attached - like a ligament - to the whole shebang of human experience". These poems include subject matter of all kinds, and to read them can feel like being led through the chaos of contemporary life by a warm yet incisive mind. - Publishers Weekly

Praise for Carrier Wave

'The super agency of Carrier Wave makes a slap-stick of language's tendency toward opacity as well as a revelation of its tendency to be transparent. And somehow, thankfully, Jaswinder Bolina has given us a - gasp - fun book. It sparks.' - Dean Young, author of Elegy on Toy Piano, Design with X, and Strike Anywhere