Winner of the 2010 Mississippi Review Poetry Series.
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Chistopher Salerno provides us with a universe just as it is coming into being. These poems are richly layered, intricately imagined, elaborately textured, and not often tamed. What a poet thinks about poetry and what he thinks about us is apparent in every poem’s existence. This poet believes in poetry and believes in us, and that is enough, more than enough for me. Maximum pleasure. I love reading this book. —Dara Wier, Contest Judge
Christopher Salerno’s poems are stunningly accurate and precise. Fluffier words might sound like higher praise, but there is no fluff here, and Minimum Heroic shows just how powerfully these terms, borrowed from harder sciences, can lend their weight to poetry as well. For here are poems that are both accurate in their measure of the world and precise—that is, consistently true to their mark—in every cadence. —Benjamin Paloff
Minimum Heroic moves quickly, as life does, through the possibilities of cardboard cars and soldiers wielding cologne, as “[t]he final campaign is to push your lover over.” There’s a beauty in these antic poems, or an antic impulse to these beautiful poems. It’s a mixture that is necessary, as necessary as the confessions, apologies, and tamperings that finally bring the idea of the heroic back to a South Jersey town, to where “[n]o longer playthings unalloyed, / we are the world again.” —John Gallaher
Christopher Salerno’s poems are stunningly accurate and precise. Fluffier words might sound like higher praise, but there is no fluff here, and Minimum Heroic shows just how powerfully these terms, borrowed from harder sciences, can lend their weight to poetry as well. For here are poems that are both accurate in their measure of the world and precise—that is, consistently true to their mark—in every cadence. —Benjamin Paloff
About the Author
Christopher Salerno is from New Jersey. His poems have appeared in several journals, including Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Jubilat, American Letters and Commentary, LIT, and others. His first book, Whirligig was published by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing House and featured by Barnes & Noble. He teaches in the English Department at North Carolina State University and is co-curator of The So and So Series.
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