Mug Shots: Poems By David Salner

Literature & Fiction

Salner, David

Poetry

March Street Pr

Welcome to the ninth annual Delmarva Review, a literary journal publishing exceptional poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction, in print and digital editions. In Volume 9, contributing writers probe a number of topics, including love, loss, aging, addiction, physical and mental illness, personal identity, relationships, and, of course, death. This volume contains the poetry and prose of thirty-six authors from 11 states and includes forty-seven poems, eight short stories, and 10 essays and memoirs. We also review five recent books by regional authors.

The Delmarva Review: Volume 9

Esstman, Barbara

Krisak, Len

Myers, Jed

Keegan, James

Wyatt Jr., Wilson

Leight, Peter

United States

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A Place to Hide

It's 1923, and Bill Waite is on the run from a cruel Montana parole boss. Arriving in New York City, he needs a hideout and someone to trust. He finds both working on the Holland Tunnel as a sandhog laborer with Virgil Pushkin Shulman, the first Jew he's ever known. 
Virgil guides him into a new life and helps him develop a false identity. Through this friendship Bill learns about Jewish history and Yiddish culture. He shelters a six-year old slum-child, takes her to ballgames at Ebbets Field, falls for her mother. After a life of loneliness and hardship, happiness. 
But when Bill rescues a coworker from a tunnel blowout, the front-page notoriety alerts his pursuers.... 
A Place to Hide probes a fugitive's mindset-with suspense, humor, and a unique moral vision.

History

World

Loyola College/Apprentice House

It's 1923, and Bill Waite is on the run from a cruel Montana parole boss. Arriving in New York City, he needs a hideout and someone to trust. He finds both working on the Holland Tunnel as a sandhog laborer with Virgil Pushkin Shulman, the first Jew he's ever known. Virgil guides him into a new life and helps him develop a false identity. Through this friendship Bill learns about Jewish history and Yiddish culture. He shelters a six-year old slum-child, takes her to ballgames at Ebbets Field, falls for her mother. After a life of loneliness and hardship, happiness. But when Bill rescues a coworker from a tunnel blowout, the front-page notoriety alerts his pursuers.... A Place to Hide probes a fugitive's mindset-with suspense, humor, and a unique moral vision.

John Henry's Partner Speaks

WordTech Communications

The "Poet Laureate of working people" David Salner returns with a collection dedicated to the dignity of labor and pursuit of dreams. The title of David Salner's volume of new and selected poems alludes to a story told by Plutarch of a land where winter is so cold that words freeze when spoken, audible only later with the thaw of summer. His are the poems of this thaw, as he gives voice to stories suspended in memory and history, specifically working-class history, beginning with his Hungarian grandparents sailing to a New World "brilliant with vagueness" in its promise of dreams attainable through work and struggle. These largely are poems of labor and laborers still in pursuit of such dreams, of the mines and mills and farms and forests where he has worked and of those he met along the way, a mosaic of an America where he has "gotten crazy / in towns that no longer exist." (The librarian is here too, in poems referencing Melville and Galileo's daughter among others out of the world of words.) These poems are themselves the product of dedicated labor, precise in their workmanship and attention to detail. More than anything, there is a real affection in these pages, for the dignity of work and the satisfaction at the end of a hard day: "if I still smoked / I'd pass a crush-proof pack to you, and we'd / exhale the dust and watch it circle / toward a dying sun, the two of us." "David Salner is the Poet Laureate of working people. All his poems display the craft of a fine poet and the heart of a fine human being. His necessary work is essential reading. To have his best work gathered in one volume is a gift to be treasured."--William Heath, author of Steel Valley Elegy "Rarely can we enter a book twice and on the second trip, be moved more than the first. Here, Salner proves it can be done and it can be simple and it can be so very disastrously beautiful."--Jorge Evans in Blue Earth Review "David Salner is a storyteller at heart whose poems are redolent with the power of understatement and close observation ... . Salner's lines have the taste and smell of truth ... . These are elemental poems, close to the earth and man's struggle with it, on it, and in it, and with each other."--Greg McBride, editor, Innisfree Poetry Journal "Depicts the lives of working men and women with empathy but without sentimentality ... . Salner's work honors the material realities of the demanding "here" in which so many people live and work."--Now & Then, Appalachian heritage magazine "These poems ache their way toward revelation with a startling clarity and brilliance."--Elizabeth Knapp, winner 2018 Robert H. Winner Award from Poetry Society of America Poetry.

Summer Words: New & Selected Poems

Broadstone Books

With his sixth poetry collection, The Green Vault Heist, David Salner assumes a strong voice, with a unique moral vision. In poems covering artistic, literary, social, and autobiographical themes, Salner writes as a poet awed by the sweep of human culture, deeply concerned by the unfolding shambles. Evocative and reflective, Salner's poems honor the diversity and depth of human resilience and put forward a concerned optimism, even as we yearn for something better.

The Green Vault Heist

Cornerstone Press

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