Poetry. "Here is spiritual clarity and acute observation fused with the enigmatic, eclectic, and occasionally surreal. The poems in THE ACTUAL WORLD are deeply felt, sometimes funny, often wise, and always capable of reminding us that, as Oscar Wilde said, 'the true mystery of the world is the visible.'"?Katrina Vandenberg "Together the short lyrics of Jason Tandon's THE ACTUAL WORLD intone an aching, celebratory song of the everyday. The fabric of the poems?of rocks and tonics and bathroom tiles, frogspawn, eyelashes, pots of sage?is shot through with strands of dream and loss and imagination that illuminate and intensify everything around them. A meditative and stirring collection."?Maggie Dietz "In poem after poem, Jason Tandon discovers just how mysteriously connected unlike things can become in their transport from the literal to the figurative. These quotidian reports resonate as lyrical meditations on the ironic dramas of daily life in a poetic calculus of luminous details, hard facts, compassionate witness, and original conceits. I am particularly struck by how remarkably little 'irritable reaching' emanates from each poem. Clearly, Tandon has disciplined himself to write as he lives and live as he writes."?Chard deNiord "Jason Tandon's strong lines are at home in the senses, but also keyed to reflective solitude. His pacing is deft and catches the 'double-take' surprise of the important moments."?Sven Birkerts "If you'd like to know how to hold the wide world in your heart, this book is a beginning. Jason Tandon does not offer broad brushstrokes to explain our days, but sharply cut lyrics. I love his sensibility. I love his spirit."?Richard Jones

The Actual World

Literature & Fiction

Tandon, Jason

Poetry

Black Lawrence Press

"In a world of distraction, Jason Tandon's This Far North sings: be here now. Tandon is a master at collecting the overlooked splendor of the daily world and turning the common into the complex. Each poem is a delight--profound and precise, image-rich and mindful, with humor weaving its way through as well. The gift of this book is how the lyrical and timeless intertwine, and we are lost in this stunning space Tandon has created. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to fall in love with poetry again."--Kelli Russell Agodon "Jason Tandon is a minimalist, a poet who manages stunning effects using the fewest possible elements of his medium. I am reminded of Uta Barth, who says her photographs "talk about the passage of time while looking at things that don't change that much at all." That moment of change is what shines in these poems, focused, refined, and magnified as it is by a lens of Tandon's flawless language. The intelligence in these poems is razor-sharp, lean, and efficient; the kind spirit behind them is generous and immense."--Eric Pankey "Every poem in This Far North seizes a glimpse and expands it into a jolting, sweeping panorama. I finished reading this book feeling, as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, that "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.""--John Skoyles Poetry. Family & Relationships.

This Far North

Poetry. Charles Simic has said of the short poem, "Less is always more.... It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence." In this collection, Tandon takes up this dictum, juxtaposing the absurd of the everyday with a compassionate, redemptive ideal. His poetry is both accessible and democratic, in the sense that no subject is unworthy of concern--he believes in the grace and nobility of even the simplest object or human behavior. His personas are beset by fear, insecurity, defeat and loss, yet they possess the humor and imagination necessary to endure.

Wee Hour Martyrdom

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Poetry. Jason Tandon's poems cast the mundane as miraculous and remind us that the trials of everyday can test even the most generous heart and patient soul."The poems in Jason Tandon's QUALITY OF LIFE meditate on loss, love, the complexities of memory, the way, perhaps, snowdrifts seen from the road recall a sheet covering the body of an old friend lost at sea. Or they speak of our need to hold onto moments of clarity, epiphany, or self-knowledge even as they slip past us. These poems, so many of which exist in the sphere of the familiar—the memory of a piano teacher, a dog bounding through the grass—are acutely observed, thoughtful, occasionally whimsical, and composed with elegance, fine music, and grace. QUALITY OF LIFE is a delight."—Kevin Prufer

Quality of Life

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The Actual World

This Far North

Wee Hour Martyrdom

Quality of Life