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."