Others is a book about travel through landscapes, from Route 80 twining through Pennsylvania and New
Jersey to Coney Island to ChicagoÕs Wabash Avenue, to the N Train in Queens. Deeply personal, yet
deeply connected to the outside world, and, at its heart, elegiac, John Reid CurrieÕs collection spins on the
axis of self and other, text and image, separation and connection. Currie writes, ÒItÕs all over my family;
death makes the best argument.Ó And yet in this book life wins out: the life of the mind, the life of the
place. These poems are about the opposite of escapeÑthis is a collection about holding, embracing, and
transforming.
Ñ Nicole Cooley, Author of Resurrection, The Afflicted Girls, and Breach, , , John Reid Currie| | 48PAGES