A Daily Glance
Mark Salerno’s so one could have is a book of fourteen line poems, essentially sonnets without the volta or classic scheme. The pieces seem to explore a personal world in a disconnected way. I don’t mean that as a negative. The poems just ask us to fill in the spaces as the lines jump in often paratactic fashion. And when we settle into a serious reading, Salerno throws in humor so that we must question the nature of the pieces. “In seeing one thing we probably see many” seems like an appropriate summation of the book. It’s like we are headed toward some goal that splinters into myriad pathways when we get close to a finale.
Mark Salerno’s so one could have is a book of fourteen line poems, essentially sonnets without the volta or classic scheme. The pieces seem to explore a personal world in a disconnected way. I don’t mean that as a negative. The poems just ask us to fill in the spaces as the lines jump in often paratactic fashion. And when we settle into a serious reading, Salerno throws in humor so that we must question the nature of the pieces. “In seeing one thing we probably see many” seems like an appropriate summation of the book. It’s like we are headed toward some goal that splinters into myriad pathways when we get close to a finale.
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