Strange Currencies [Paperback]

Daniel Sendecki (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2003

Poetry. Includes black and white photographs. "In STRANGE CURRENCIES, Daniel Sendecki travels through a Far East of haunting contrasts, where 'Roadside children collect lotus flowers to weave into bracelets' while feet away are landmines 'like knives asleep in kitchen drawers imagining meat.' Startling perceptions of past and present, teeming streets and loneliness, killing fields and open sky are juxtaposed in finely textured images, drawing us to touch the mystery hidden between 'the agony and beauty.' How refreshing to read poems that 'Make myself as small as possible' and reach outward, not only to look closely at a far corner of the world, but through it, for glimpses of enduring value--'to see a little light.'"--Susan Ioannou.

Editorial Reviews

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Sendecki moves us through exotic locales, always reminding us of the compelling vibrations of home, the place we forever seek. -- Charlene Diehl-Jones, Winnipeg author and critic

Strange Currencies is a wonderful collection, both for its physical beauty and its remarkable poetry. -- John E. Smelcer, Rosebud Magazine

These poems reach outward, not only to look closely at a far corner of the world, but through it... -- Susan Ioannou, author of 'Clarity Between Clouds'

About the Author

Daniel Sendecki was born in 1975 in Montreal, Canada. He studied at the University of Waterloo (B.A., 1998) before receiving his Master's Degree in English Language and Literature from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In 2002 he taught at the Language Education Center at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea.

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Ahadada Books (February 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0973223308
• ISBN-13: 978-0973223309
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,023,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Heartfelt Journey, April 6, 2003

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Linda Lee Welch (Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strange Currencies (Paperback)

Daniel Sendecki's poetry collection traces his travels through the East, from China to India with lots of stops and 'Strange Currencies' to deal with on the way. I love the title and its reference to funny money, as well as the values we place on things, how we spend our time and our lives, and how others spend theirs.
The layout is superb. Sendecki starts each poem with a photograph of the place and the coins he found there. Then, there are the words. In Six Exposures,he takes word snapshots: "6/ In Siem Reap a girl gets married/ and she is so afraid and sad that she gets/ up on the back of a water buffalo and cries." This is beautiful stuff.