The Formulas

In Jordan Sanderson’s marvelous collection The Formulas, you will be told where you are and where you will go, and just when you think you are sure, you will go somewhere new. You will worry, want, have, beg, learn, and fall. You’ll have injuries. You’ll crave. You’ll listen to The Flaming Lips and Adele. You will “do your part.”

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In Jordan Sanderson’s marvelous collection, The Formulas, you will be told where you are and where you will go, and just when you think you are sure, you will go somewhere new. You will worry, want, have, beg, learn, and fall. You’ll have injuries. You’ll crave. You’ll listen to The Flaming Lips and Adele. You will “do your part.” You will be both terrified and reassured at once but “a thousand breaths can’t compose you.” You will want to revisit these formulae again and again. You will “blow apart like a universe,” but “you will know you belong.”

—Julie Johnson, Naming the Afternoon

Entering Jordan Sanderson’s poetry, we find a world of strict requirements and generous rewards. Here are ultimate absurdities drawn from life, polymorphous enthrallments embedded in the everyday. From the first poem onwards, it is impossible to separate intrigue from recognition or apprehension from delight.

—Angela Ball, author of Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds

About the Author

Originally from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Jordan Sanderson earned a PhD from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi in 2007. His work has appeared in several journals, including Better: A Journal of Culture and Lit, The Fiddleback, Red Earth Review, Oklahoma Review, Caketrain, and burntdistrict. His reviews and criticism have appeared in The Hollins Critic, Heavy Feather Review, Alehouse, and other journals. He currently lives in Moss Point, Mississippi, and teaches at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

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