{"id":1837,"date":"2015-03-25T11:35:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:38:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:38:34","slug":"jordan-zandis-first-poetry-collection-forthcoming-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/03\/25\/jordan-zandis-first-poetry-collection-forthcoming-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Zandi’s first poetry collection forthcoming in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re excited to announce\u00a0that Jordan Zandi’s (poetry 2010) first book of poems\u00a0is forthcoming by Sarabande books next February! \u00a0You can read the title poem here<\/a>. \u00a0Below, Jordan shares a bit about the making of\u00a0Solarium.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many poems from Solarium – and, probably more importantly, the process by which I worked on them – took root in the workshops at Boston University, though only pieces might remain recognizable from those earlier drafts.\u00a0 I was doing a lot of collage-style generation and revision with that work, and some of the final poems came from two, three, even five, separate poems being grafted onto one another.\u00a0 Others – and here I think of the title poem in particular, which took around two years start to finish – went through dozens of re-drafts, shedding portions that themselves turned into poems, or that proved to be the missing piece to another poem, or that added to what eventually became a 12-page compost-heap.\u00a0 I love what’s fragmentary, what’s left out, but I also love the intuited shape, the impression that it might be whole; and it’s hard to make those fragments make a whole.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for these thoughts, Jordan, and congratulations!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jordan Zandi holds an MFA from Boston University, where he was the recipient of an Elizabeth Leonard Fellowship and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship.\u00a0 His work has appeared inThe New Republic, Little Star<\/i>, and elsewhere.\u00a0 He is co-founder and poetry editor of Prodigal<\/i>, a forthcoming literary magazine of poetry and essays.\u00a0 His first poetry collection,\u00a0Solarium<\/i>, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and will be published by Sarabande Books in February of 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re excited to announce\u00a0that Jordan Zandi’s (poetry 2010) first book of poems\u00a0is forthcoming by Sarabande books next February! \u00a0You can read the title poem here. \u00a0Below, Jordan shares a bit about the making of\u00a0Solarium. Many poems from Solarium – and, probably more importantly, the process by which I worked on them – took root in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,4162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}