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.