Solarium

"Solariumis 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, from the Foreword

"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." —Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker

Jordan Zandi is the author of Solarium (Sarabande Books, 2016), which was chosen by Henri Cole as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. He holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Boston University, where he was an Elizabeth Leonard Fellow and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow to Bolivia. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Little Star, Bluestem Online, and The Laurel Review. He is founder and co-editor of Prodigal, an independent print and online journal of poetry and prose.