Poetry. "These poems contain a wonderful capacity to incorporate unpredictability, humor, anguish, anxiety, longing, and 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.

Author Hometown: Bridgewater, NJ USA



About the author: Christopher Salerno's books include Minimum Heroic (Mississippi Review Poetry Series, 2010), and WHIRLIGIG (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing House, 2006). New or recent poems can be found in Boston Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, Colorado Review, jubilat, Jacket, American Letters & Commentary, Laurel Review, and others. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey, and is co-curator of the So and So Reading Series and co-poetry editor for The So and So Editions and Magazine. He lives in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and Cary, North Carolina.

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