Tandon's keen eye and idiosyneratic ear---he picks up shard of language and refashions them, making new wholes from fragments of everyday speech---combine to create a poetry with its own quiet
urgency. There is a music that plays beautifully from poem to poem, as the fanguage in subtle ways probes the underlying beauties of casual syntax. I look forward to Tandon's future work with
considerable antdrcipafion, although glad to have what he has given us already.---Jay Parini, author of Why Poetry Matters
"Jason Tandon is loyal to one of the poet's primary obligations: to make us see the world fresh, as if for the first time. The life his poems record is the quotidian one we recognize of dogs,
donuts, cigarettes, traffic jams, short-order cooks, and `whatever animal is scrarching inside [the] air conditioner.' That nameless animal is a compelling emblem of a truth these poems reveal
over and over: that the closer we look at the world, the more unknowable and troubling it is---and beautiful."---Chris Forhan, author of the Actual Moon, The Actual Stars
"In this book you can find the fingerprints of the trickster, the pilgrim, the lover, the philosopher. I urge you to buy it. You'll be reading it for years."---Mekeel McBride, author of Dog
Star Delicatessen: New and Selected Poems 1979-2006
"Each of Tandon's poems lure you in with a careful bemusement, then deliver a quivering ache that'll follow you around all day---an `I'm-happy-to-be-alive' ache, an
`I'm-glad-writing-like-this-exists' ache."---Todd Zuniga, founding editor of Opium Magazine
"Jason Tandon is the Heckler, the patron saint of diners, bowling alleys and the American garden gnome---a reliable witness in an unreliable world. At a `frenetic pitch and toss' where the
hilarious convulses alongside the sacred, the poems in this collection chase fires, put a hypnotist on trial, and for the sake of us all `break
