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Whirligig by Christopher Salerno
ISBN 1-933132-26-4
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Salerno
couches his wisdom on indecision. The reader on the other hand, knows
better.
Salerno isn’t picking one
thing or the other from poem to poem to “charge right into,” but
both. Because Whirligig gives
us the
sense that there is nothing Salerno
will avoid, we
can only hope that his
are “the laws that [will] govern our listening” for decades to come.
Chris Tonelli, Redivider Magazine
“Make it new” Pound said, and Christopher Salerno does,
though the
playfulness,
wit and surprises in these poems remind me of the “mid-career”
poets I most admire:
Denise Duhamel, Tony Hoagland, Dean Young. . .“We're alone
in our best visions”
Salerno
says but, as always, the best visions of the poet offer readers new
ways of
seeing. Whirligig is one of
the most
distinctive first books of poems I've read in decades.
Ed Ochester, Editor, Pitt
Poetry Series
A reader's observations regarding the nature of these poems
is
that they contain a
wonderful capacity to incorporate unpredictability, humor,
anguish, anxiety, longing,
and a feisty note of confusion and survival...Poems
that are not wedded to literal and
linear meaning of experience but to the
imagined and circular meanings and play.
Whirligig
is consistently attentive to an edgy playfulness and serious
mindfulness,
continuing dialogue with matters of faith through failings of identity
and
belief in self
and others. The poems carry the musical moment with an easy
sensibility. The
observations ripple and pause with seduction and sensuality. Jason
Shinder, Founder,
YMCA
National Writers Voice and author of Among
Women
In these tight,
powerful explorations of the intersections between
perception and creation,
Chris Salerno is looking for ways to insinuate value
into our lives. The poems in Whirligig
are informed by intuition, grounded by intelligence and moved by poetic
skill. Salerno
explores freely
and bravely the possibilities of emptiness and longing but never
abandons
hope
or confidence in language’s ability to give us more than we can always
understand.
This is an important new voice. Tom
Lisk, Author of Aroma
Terrapin
Christopher
Salerno
Christopher
Salerno was born and
raised in New
Jersey and currently lives in Raleigh, NC.
His
poems have appeared or are
forthcoming in journals such as: Colorado Review, Jubilat,
Electronic
Poetry
Review, AGNI-online, Spinning Jenny, Forklift Ohio, LIT, GoodFoot,
Barrow
Street, River City, Carolina Quarterly, and in the anthology, “The
Bedside
Guide To
No
Tell Motel." He currently teaches in the English Department at
North Carolina State University.
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