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Peach (2025)
I write stories of sad and ugly people,people extreme in their humanity, people pushed, nudged by life into small atrocities, the impossible circumstance, the unforeseen result, the regret that comes with change. Often, I think, these are stories than cannot be unheard, stories impossible to let go of -- not, perhaps, impossible to forget -- but that leave a taste in the mouth, a paper cut on the hand, a scar that doesn't heal well. -- Author
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The writing is sharp, incisive, and direct, surgical without being cynical, wounding with a grim kind of compassion. Currier reveals an aching sense of the shadow-side of American dreams broken into bits and ground underfoot. -- Cedar Blake
The business of the poet includes the exploration and examination of the human condition, Currier follows through on these in his earlier works and continues it in his most recent, -- Jeremiah K Durick
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His language is clear, direct and purposeful; never overstated or exaggerated. There is no ranting or cajoling. Currier wants readers to consider death at a slant, consider a slightly changed possibility of the inevitable
-- Michael Carrino
These poems invite us to examine our complex attitudes towards our own mortality and, ultimately, our reluctant acquiescence. ~ Angela Patten, author of The Oriole & the Ovenbird, In Praise of Usefulness and other books
Douglas K. Currier’s Senorita Death is one of many possible guises of Death—neighbor, waitress, jealous half-sister, wedding guest—the poet conjures in this frank and provocative collection. -- Daniel Lusk
What emerges from this brave confrontation is true poetry: urgent and alive. I was informed and enlightened by reading it. ~Joan Aleshire
