Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt

"Tandon's keen eye and idiosyncratic ear -- he picks up shards 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 language in subtle ways probes the underlying beauties of casual syntax.  I look forward to Tandon's future work with considerable anticipation, although glad to have what he has given us already."
-- Jay Parini, author of Why Poetry Matters
 
Jason Tandon is the author of one other collection of poetry, Wee Hour Martyrdom (Sunnyoutside, 2008), and his poems and book reviews have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades, and on Verse Daily. He teaches at Boston University.