Bio
Jason Tandon is the author of the chapbook Flight (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2007). His first full-length collection, Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, was a finalist for the 2006 Kinereth Gensler Award (Alice James Books). He is completing his MFA at the University of New Hampshire, and since 2005 has served as an intern poetry editor at the Paris Review. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Columbia Poetry Review, Red Cedar Review, Poet Lore, The Bitter Oleander, Euphony and Regarding Arts & Letters.

Blurbs
“You have to travel Rumble Strip with an empty satchel and an open heart to see into the specific depths of nature coinciding with man’s often destructive symbols, but the reward is that you can see it all through a trained poet’s eyes that show you how to step, how to breathe, and how to live without ever suffering what befalls us all in the end.” —Paul B. Roth, editor & publisher, The Bitter Oleander Press

“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

“[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.”—Jay Parini, author of The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems