The Currency [Paperback]

The finely-sculpted poems of The Currency animate the world of art and architecture, from Caravaggio and Frank Gehry to the contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan and the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin. Exploring such works of art for how they lead us to pause for thought and breathhow they infuse mind and body in equal measure, helping us keep and pass the time we spendOtremba poignantly articulates the hues of familial life.

PAUL OTREMBA's poems and criticism have appeared in American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, The Kenyon Review, Lyric, New England Review, Poetry Daily, Tikkun and Virginia Quarterly Review. He has won scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, a Barthelme Memorial Fellowship, and an Academy of American Poets prize. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Houston.