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"Solarium is a completely original gem of a book."—Henri Cole, from the foreword
Bowl of the lake. Bowl of the sky.
Bowl of the lake with the sky in it.
You looked at you in the water.
The blizzard is cold.
And the boy in the blizzard is blue.
Jordan Zandi grew up in the rural Midwest, and in 2011 graduated with an MFA in poetry from Boston University, where he was the recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship to Bolivia. His poetry has appeared in the New Republic and Little Star.
Price: $14.95
Pages: 64
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Series: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
Publication Date:
09 February 2016
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781941411179
Format: Paperback
Best Poetry of 2016, The New York Times
"Zandi’s mellow, sometimes deliberately goofy lines (“As loud as cats — and happiness!”) can almost fool you into missing the agile intellect that makes this one of the year’s strongest first books."
—The New York Times
"A first book made eventful by the weirdness and clarity of Zandi’s mind. Poetry is like solitaire: we go to it to pass the time. Zandi reminds us that passing the time is a very serious activity. His balletic inner life belies the gravity at its core."
—The New Yorker
"Zandi’s debut collection radiates a fragile warmth in what proves to be an aching and uncommonly ingenious exploration of youth and memory."
—Publishers Weekly
"Zandi’s mellow, sometimes deliberately goofy lines (“As loud as cats — and happiness!”) can almost fool you into missing the agile intellect that makes this one of the year’s strongest first books."
—The New York Times
"A first book made eventful by the weirdness and clarity of Zandi’s mind. Poetry is like solitaire: we go to it to pass the time. Zandi reminds us that passing the time is a very serious activity. His balletic inner life belies the gravity at its core."
—The New Yorker
"Zandi’s debut collection radiates a fragile warmth in what proves to be an aching and uncommonly ingenious exploration of youth and memory."
—Publishers Weekly
“Solarium is a completely original gem of a book. I have never met Jordan Zandi, but I would like to, for there is a sweet spirit haunting his guileless poems. His inner world is always interacting with the outer world, and as a result everything seems to be shining.”
—Henri Cole, author of Middle Earth
Jordan Zandi: Jordan Zandi grew up in the rural Midwest, and in 2011 graduated with an MFA in poetry from Boston University, where he was the recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship to Bolivia. His poetry has appeared in The New Republic and Little Star.
I
On Stepping Off the Train
On My Path Life
April 18
The Gift Horse
The Flavor Suite
Solarium
Epic
In the Opposite Rooms
On My Painting Life
II
River
Adjustments
Le Monde Familier
An Island Journal
On My Pool Life
Chamber Music
Acrylic I
Etch-a-Sketch
Vector
Halls, then Banquet
On My Pony Life
III
The Circus in Winter
Quarry
IV
Snow Children
all around the garden of the gods
A Lesson in Botany
On My So-Called Life
Inside
On My Plane Life
Threes
Transparencies
At the Sign of the Skull
Green Gingko
In the Forest
A Curiosity
Place
On Stepping Off the Train
On My Path Life
April 18
The Gift Horse
The Flavor Suite
Solarium
Epic
In the Opposite Rooms
On My Painting Life
II
River
Adjustments
Le Monde Familier
An Island Journal
On My Pool Life
Chamber Music
Acrylic I
Etch-a-Sketch
Vector
Halls, then Banquet
On My Pony Life
III
The Circus in Winter
Quarry
IV
Snow Children
all around the garden of the gods
A Lesson in Botany
On My So-Called Life
Inside
On My Plane Life
Threes
Transparencies
At the Sign of the Skull
Green Gingko
In the Forest
A Curiosity
Place