Christopher Salerno – Poet + Teacher + Editor

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Winner of the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award from Persea Books..."Salerno's virtuosic mastery is on full display in his fifth book; these chiseled, gutting, original poems critique, upend, celebrate and mourn masculinity as a culture, institution, malignity, and, perhaps most breathtakingly so, as a force for good to be reckoned with, in the spirit of Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" or Li-Young Li's "The Gift," reminding the reader of poetry's power to be both corrective and balm. Salerno is one of our greatest living poets, and this book is a triumph."
"With humor and melancholy, Salerno's poems collect details of ways the concrete and the ethereal mash together in modern life." ~New Pages
Winner of the 2016 Georgia Poetry Prize from University of Georgia Press
Winner of the 2013 Georgetown Review Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2010 Mississippi Review Poetry Series Award.
"These poems are complex, insightful, perplexing, humorous, sincere and ironic, often simultaneously." ~H_ngm_n Magazine"