David Salner's first novel, A Place to Hide, will appear in March 2021. His latest poetry collection is The Stillness of Certain Valleys (Broadstone Books, 2019). He worked all over the U.S. as iron ore miner, steelworker, machinist, bus driver, garment laborer, teacher, librarian. His stories and poems have appeared in many journals including Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal.

Books by David Salner:

Other poems on the web by David Salner:
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Midnight to Eight"
Four poems
"The View From Heaven"
"Osage, WV"
"Goya’s Black Paintings, Melville’s White Whale"
"The Royal, the Whiskey, the Snow"
"Creek Chub, Little Bluestone River"

David Salner's Website.

About The Stillness:

"David Salner's poems are full of fresh and evocative images — 'a plume of exhaust turns pink in the crossing lights' as we sit with him for the night train. Goya paints 'black oil chaos from which / eyes glinted like knives.' Whatever world the poem creates, Salner invites his readers in with his exact language and surprising metaphor. The music of these poems is often subtly beautiful, using assonance and alliteration to tie together stanzas and ideas. Salner's work bears reading over and over as we discover how many layers these seemingly simple worlds have."
—Anne Colwell

"Salner's lyrical poems give us the physical world, its roughness and beauty, and the life it sustains—the miner, the immigrant grandmother, The Stillness of Certain Valleys— and they bring us closer to ourselves and who we were in the rapidly fading 20th century. His work is a treasure for us of this lesser century."
—Greg McBride