Jason Tandon’s
This Far North
practices a poetics of quietude. These brief, imagistic poems evoke a Zen-like “suchness” as Tandon writes about the natural world or the daily tasks with which we busy our lives. Readers looking to slow down, looking for a poetry that is seasonal and spare, present and attentive, will find much to savor in this meditative collection that makes the ordinary, numinous.