{"id":4424,"date":"2013-09-17T19:47:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T19:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=4424"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:45:09","slug":"the-currency","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/the-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 74 pages \u2022 15.95
ISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-884800-89-4<\/p>\n

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The Currency<\/em><\/h1>\n

Paul Otremba<\/h2>\n

The finely-sculpted poems of The Currency<\/em> animate the world of art and architecture, from\u00a0Caravaggio and Frank Gehry to the contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan and the filmmaker\u00a0Jean-Pierre Limosin. Exploring such works of art for how they lead us to pause for thought and\u00a0breath, for how they infuse mind and body in equal measure, helping us keep and pass the time we\u00a0spend, Otremba poignantly articulates the hues of familial life. One ghazal traces colors, Rothkolike,\u00a0through a boy\u2019s life; another poem traces the speaker\u2019s fascination with doctors to a childhood\u00a0encounter with his physician father. Art and life intermix seamlessly and you, like the book\u2019s\u00a0speaker, will feel \u201cI almost heard them move, \/ the figures beneath the photographs\u2019 gloss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservatory
<\/em><\/p>\n

I saw it once, the place full of steam,
from behind the taxi\u2019s streaked window.<\/p>\n

But in the park we were vulnerable,
exposed for the sky\u2019s opening. Running,<\/p>\n

a small space opened near the small
of her back. Some nights I would<\/p>\n

wake there. Then in dreams, her tongue
reflected with scales like the sides<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

of a glass fish. And there were other\u2014
more important\u2014rains. Still, what leaves?\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

What conservation of mettle? More dreams
proceeded, but the order came out wrong.<\/p>\n

It was a vastness, the glass against the sky,
another couple up for anything,<\/p>\n

or so it seemed from the railing.
On the sides of the glass fish swam<\/p>\n

scrutiny, an abundance of fern.\u2028
And still others came by and said, Oh,<\/p>\n

not that red, that <\/em>red.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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