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Literati is pleased to welcome Jordan Zandi, reading from his collection Solarium. UM Zell Fellows in Poetry Amanda Rybin Koob and Hannah Webster will also read.
“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. ‘Walking across the binary field, / what does the young man see?’ Zandi asks, searching for signs with his subtle eyes. The answer seems to be the great opium of simply being content within oneself—with a heart that receives and watches (if a heart watches), while resisting the systems that hurt us—and remaining awake to experience.”—Henri Cole, from the Foreword
Jordan Zandi is the author of Solarium (Sarabande Books), which was chosen by Henri Cole as the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. The New Yorker named it one of the twelve best poetry-related books of 2015, calling it, “A first book made eventful by the weirdness and clarity of Zandi’s mind.” 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, and his poems have appeared in The New Republic, Little Star, and Verse Daily, among others. He is founder and co-editor of Prodigal, an independent print and online journal of poetry and prose and currently lives in Indianapolis with his wife and their two rabbits.
