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In the age of increasing surveillance of borders the border is where everything significant occurs map the border and you begin to understand the pulseof a nation Asher Ghaffar writes in the introduction to Wasps in a GoldenDream Hum a Strange Music his debut collection of poetry. In 2003 he wasstopped at the Wagah border post where hundreds gather to watch the spectacleof the aggressive flaglowering ceremony on both the Indian and Pakistaniside.Deploying the Wagah border literally and metaphorically Ghaffarmovingly describes the affective dimensions of race from the position ofsecondgeneration Canadianborn Muslim immigrant deftly interrogating mediadepictions of the War on Terrorism. As Ghaffar writes I saw an ocean betweentwo worlds where flowers burst like paper rage.He also documents in aseries of cascading questions the multiple ways that he came to understand theaftermath of the July 7th suicide bombings. At times the poetry is productivelyconflicted between narrative and verse and the text opens up a fertile spacewhere multiple genres flourish and jest.In the spirit of anticolonial poetslike Aime Cesaire and Mahmoud Darwish and more recent experimental writers likethe late Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Nathalie Stephens Asher Ghaffar documents arestless and often beautiful search for a rich and complex anti colonialpoetics for our times without falling into comfortable dogmas I sought aform for the body in crisis the body in alliance with the flight of bees. Isearched the archive for the voice which would break the density further. Isought the drive that was not the drive for death but the drive foreverlasting life in fervor. «
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