Christopher Salerno's Whirligig was shortlisted for the Walt Whitman Award and was just published by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing House (NY). Other poems can be found in Verse, The Colorado Review, Jubilat, Jacket, The Tiny, The New Hampshire Review, Agni online, Carolina Quarterly, Barrow Street, Free Verse, Electronic Poetry Review, Lit, River City, Forklift Ohio, Tar River Poetry, Spinning Jenny, GoodFoot, and in the anthology, The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel. He teaches Composition, Poetry Writing and American Lit at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. Visit his blog.
Whirligig
Book Description
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...
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WHAT IF MARVELOUS MARVIN HAGLER:
Feathered the severe weapon laid at his feet.
Danced some.
Saw the dark part heal.
Was verse.
Was mocking bird verse.
Curled his hand around
around more
than air:
Lip. Lips.
Left our fields in peace.
Was here.
His pepper.
Let us wear roller skates.
FOOT
Clocks freak you've been told this.
Boo.
The situation of crows is an old-time punctuation.
Hands
we aren't just dying like
paper boats, we scar first optimism and then kick.
Glove
and hold your breath.
© Christopher Salerno 2006.
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